The old standby. The classic. The bar height or length represents data. The baseline starts at zero.
Many charts don't tell the truth. This is a simple guide to spotting them.
There are many ways to show parts of a whole. Here are quick one-liners for the more common ones.
Provide a slider for the standard bar chart so that users can shift focus to a point of interest.
There are visualization rules and there are visualization suggestions. Most are suggestions. The ones that are rules exist because of how our brains process visual information. There's just no getting around it.
The code to create these bar chart variations is almost the same as if you were to make a standard bar chart. But make sure you get the math right.
The chart type seems simple enough, but there sure are a lot of bad ones out there. Get yourself out of default mode.
Welcome to a new segment where I try to put myself in the shoes of someone who made a bad chart and try to make it better.
I'm terrible at names, but maybe data can help. Put in your sex, the decade when you were born, and start putting in your name. I'll try to guess before you're done.
What percentage of households fall into lower-, middle-, and upper-income levels when you adjust for household size?
"So how'd you two meet?" There's always a story, but the general ways people meet are usually similar. Here are the most common.
Wow your friends during the game with random win percentages, based on various player stats.
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Some states have high rates. Some have low. But whether a state is lower or higher for you depends on more than just the high brackets.
As I’m sure you know, the current administration banned immigrants from seven countries…
How good or bad something is depends on what you compare against.
A comparison of the words unique to the candidates on Twitter.
In a collaborative effort, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media computed…
