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Chart Snapshot: Variable Width Bar Charts

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

Here’s how far we have to go — The Washington Post In almost all countries men smoke more than women Visualizing The Smoking Population of Countries — Visual Capitalist The post Chart Snapshot: Variable Width Bar Charts appeared first on The Data Visualisation Catalogue Blog.

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How to Visualize Margin of Error Data in Excel with “Slider Plots”

Depict Data Studio

One of the biggest puzzles we face is how to translate those results (visually and verbally) so that everyone from expert audiences to laypeople can understand our findings and benefit from them. Back before the pandemic, one of our faculty asked for some help in visualizing her data for a conference on childhood nutrition.

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10 Year Anniversary & Top 10 Charts in 2023

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

On 6th January 2017, all 60 chart reference pages were completed. Subsequently, a shop was introduced, and later, this blog was added to provide additional content and learning. Yet, although I struggle to produce enough content for this blog, I am committed to making new posts when possible.

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Towards Better Visualizations: Part 1 - The Visual Frontier

Darkhorse

This is part one of a two-part series on building effective visualizations. In this post, we take a shallow dive into evaluating existing visualizations. It’s very easy to visualize data. As a result, we’ve become accustomed to complex, confusing, and essentially useless visualizations that obfuscate rather than inform.

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Closing Data's Last-Mile Gap: Visualizing For Impact!

Occam's Razor

If so, is the data for August 2017 really adding value? Experiment with visualization options, even in Excel! Consider experimenting with different visuals in Excel ( or D3js ). There is no indication that data from 2017 to 2020 is available, and it is highly unlikely that it will follow a linear trend.

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Academic Research Done on Alluvial Diagrams

The Data Visualisation Catalogue

This was the first paper to introduce the “Alluvial Diagram” and used this new visualisation to visually represent the change in a large and complex network structure over time. Detecting Dynamics of Hot Topics with Alluvial Diagrams: A Timeline Visualization (2017). Visualizing changes in nationally averaged PM2.5

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Don’t Start from Scratch! Make One of these Dashboards Instead

Depict Data Studio

Grant Deliverables In this blog post , you’ll see how Josephine Engels did need to start from scratch — she was visualizing these metrics for her organization for the first time — and then made several dashboards to track grant deliverables. No need to start from scratch. Adapt one of these dashboards instead.