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Use Icons to Visualize Data, Not Just Decorate

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I’ve been recommending that we use icons for years now — but I haven’t been clear enough about how to use them, and how not to use them. In this blog post, you’ll see 8 different types of icon use. Icons and clip-art are similar, but not identical. 5) Icons to Categorize: Yes!

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Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively

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As in, the former is in the business of providing data, the latter in the business of understanding the performance implied by the data. We send out our multi-tab spreadsheets, our best Google Analytics custom reports , our great dashboards full of data , and more to the tactical layer of data clients. In fact 86.4%

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Top 23 Dataviz Resources of 2023

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Here are my favorite data visualization resources from the past year. 6 Data Cleaning Steps to Save You Millions : Hudson Kelley teaches us how to check for duplicates; check for changes in the survey instrument; check for outliers; use counts; recode variables with IF statements; and combine datasets with lookups.