Design

Peter Aldhous on his workflow and speeding up the visualization process for the news.

Geoff McGhee for National Geographic highlights a handful of projects that form a…

How choice of scale changes a view completely, even with the same data.

Primary colors used in frames of the director’s films. Someone made an R package for this a while back.

On Writing Well by William Zinsser is a bestselling guide on writing well.…

Computers can calculate an infinite number of colors, but our brains can only…

Elijah Meeks continues his essay on using Gestalt principles for visualization. See parts 1 and 2 first.

Gestalt refers to our ability to see a whole from the parts, and…

Redesigning a visualization can be useful in teaching a point. Make a graphic…

Quick and simple. It is a common theme in visualization that preaches clarity…

In a discussion of context and visualization, Jen Christiansen pulls out a good…

The process to purchase a MetroCard for the New York Subway is different…

The simple analysis is to approach data blind, as machine output. But this…

When it comes to storytelling, copious amounts of data often means lots of…

Mushon Zer-Aviv offers up examples and guidance on lying with visualization.
We don’t…

A bunch of color schemes and their corresponding hex codes.

There’s a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could…

We’ve Reached Peak Infographic, and We’re No Smarter for It. Add another to the list of people who are tired of infographics that don’t say much. Again though, it’s best not to get too bent out of shape over low-quality work, and energy is much better spent working on things that shine.

Mostly ugly, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing

Lance Hosey, for The New York Times, on design, beauty, and functionality.
We…