We spend so much time trying to make our graphs accurate, simple, understandable,…
Design
Important in presenting data clearly and beautifully.
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6 Easy Steps to Make Your Graph (Really) Ugly
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Rise of the Data Scientist
Photo by majamarko
As we’ve all read by now, Google’s chief economist Hal…
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Data Visualization is Only Part of the Answer to Big Data
How can we now cope with a large amount of data and still…
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Flow Chart Shows You What Chart to Use
Amit Agarwal, of Digital Inspiration, posts this Andrew Abela creates this flow chart…
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One Death is a Tragedy; a Million is a Statistic
Photograph by *Your Guide
I posted a comic from xkcd last week that…
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Steve Jobs on Design
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like……
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Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story
Think of all the popular data visualization pieces out there – the ones…
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Sketching Around Personal Brand Tracking
This is a guest post by Miguel Jiménez, a user experience and interaction…
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Playful Infographics Triumph Over Pure Analytics (Sometimes)
The New York Times shows how presidential candidates have spent more than $900…
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Why Should Engineers and Scientists Care About Color (and Design)?
I studied electrical engineering and computer science in undergrad and now as a…
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A Little Bit of Design Goes a Long Way With Infographics
If I’ve learned anything about designing information graphics, it’s that attention to detail…
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A Chat with The New York Times on Making Data More Engaging
Everybody knows about The New York Times graphics. Here are two people that their hand in a lot of it.
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Symbiosis of Engineering, Statistics, Design and Data Visualization
Andrew Vande Moere writes in his 2005 paper Form Follows Data:
[W]e can…
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Bars as an Alternative to Bubble Charts
Are bubble charts effective? This seems to be a recurring question. Some say…
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John Maeda Speaks About Simplicity
John Maeda, a professor in the MIT Media Lab, gives his talk on…
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Displaying Data as Efficiently as Possible
The above picture isn’t totally related, but I just had to put it…
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Creating Effective Visualization
What makes a visualization good? It allows people to see what they never…
