communicating with data
It all started with an extreme pie chart A few weeks back, there’s been a chart on aid who’s made the rounds of the internet: What this chart shows is that US aid is concentrated in a few countries. The article explains that this is a result of the 3D doctrine, which ties development with [...]
Introducing Making Data Meaningful Part 2 – Style guide on the presentation of statistics – which, as its name cleverly suggests, is a compilation of advice to present graphical information. It’s a follow up to Making Data Meaningul part 1 , which focused on writing about data, as opposed to visualize it. The book is a [...]
I am currently beta testing Tableau Public. Essentially Tableau Public let you bring the power of Tableau analysis online. With Tableau public, your audience doesn’t need to download a workbook file that they can see in an offline, software client – they can see and interact with your work directly on a web page. There [...]
Two weeks ago I have been at DD4D conference, conveniently located at my workplace. I will write some more on DD4D, meanwhile you can see this post on infosthetics by Petra and Marian. One of the things that struck me at DD4D was that several talks were about either data visualization for advocacy, or for [...]
This week, FlowingData has organized the contest. A chart was submitted, and contestants were asked to improve it. A lot of my job revolves around reviewing and correcting graphs, so I was more than happy to compete. Here is the original graph, hosted & designed by Swivel: The rules of the contest stated that the new [...]