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Remove Your Rose Tinted Glasses: Data Visualizations Designed to Mislead

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1) Misleading Data Visualization Examples. 2) How to Avoid Misleading Visuals. 3) The Impact Of Bad Data Visualizations. But while that may be the case, people are duped by data visualizations every day. Bad data visualizations come in many forms, with some more obvious than others. Table of Contents.

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Chart Snapshot: Box-Percentile Plots

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The clear display of a density shape allows for the skewness, modality, and other distributional characteristics to be revealed visually. A Box-Percentile Plot incorporates a density shape (like on a Violin Plot ) by varying the width of the shape in proportion to the percentiles of the data.

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

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Experiment with visualization options, even in Excel! Consider experimenting with different visuals in Excel ( or D3js ). Once you arrive at that conclusion, you’ll apply principle #4 and realize that the most interesting data on this slide is not the visual… Rather, it is the table on the top right corner of the slide.

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New Format for The Bar Chart Reference Page

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Bar Charts are distinguished from the visually very similar Histogram, as they do not display continuous data over an interval. Visual Arrangements of Bar Charts Influence Comparisons in Viewer Takeaways. Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis). An Evaluation of the Impact of Visual Embellishments in Bar Charts.

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Chart Snapshot: 100% Stacked Area Graphs

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Tools to generate this chart: AmCharts AnyChart Highcharts R Python Vizzlo ZingChart Examples Cumulative CO₂ emissions by world region Our World in Data World population living in extreme poverty, World, 1820 to 2015 Our World in Data Figure 2: Youth population in formal education and/or in the labour force by age, EU, 2022 Source: Eurostat, EU Labour (..)

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Academic Research Done on Alluvial Diagrams

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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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A Guide To Starting A Career In Business Intelligence & The BI Skills You Need

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics also states that in 2015, the annual median salary for BI analysts was $81,320. To simplify things, you can think of back-end BI skills as more technical in nature and related to building BI platforms, like online data visualization tools. This beats projections for almost all other occupations.