Learning to Data
Tutorials, Books, and Guides
Tutorials
How to Make an Animated Beeswarm Chart
Beeswarm charts are useful to highlight individual categories or entities. Animating them can help highlight change over time.
How to Make Marimekko Charts in Excel
Marimekko charts, or mosaic plots, allow you to compare categories over two quantitative variables.
How to Make Symbol-based Glyph Charts, with R Examples
Using geometric shapes as an encoding can provide another dimension to your charts.
How to Make a Heatmap in Excel
Heatmaps quickly translate data tables into a visual form, making them a great tool to explore a new dataset.
How to Untangle a Spaghetti Line Chart (with R Examples)
Put multiple time series lines on the same plot, and you quickly end up with a mess. Here are practical ways to clean it up.
Books
Guides and Tips
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Guides for Visualizing Reality
We like to complain about how data is messy, not in the right format, and how parts don’t make sense. Reality is complicated though.
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Wide View (The Process 085)
The data might exist on a single page or in a single file, but there’s always more to it. Take a step outside for a better view.
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Bivariate choropleth how-to
Your standard choropleth map shows geographic areas colored by a …
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Naked Statistics
Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan promises a fun, non-boring introduction …
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Learn the rules of data graphics so you can bend them
If you take away anything from The Visual Display of …