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Data Visualization
Learn about best practices and tools to visualize data using charts and maps.
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Data + Visualization
Software & Tools
Tableau
Excel
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Refining a Visualization
Interactive Data Visualization Checklist
(Stephanie Evergreen & Ann K Emery)
Printable Version
Data Visualization Effectiveness Profile
(Stephen Few)
Video:
Data Looks Better Naked
(Dark Horse Analytics)
Tables
What to consider when creating tables
(Chartable, by Datawrapper)
Color & Visual Elements
How to Use Color
Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts
(Stephen Few, Perceptual Edge)
Being Clever with Color
website + video (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic)
Data Looks Better Naked
(Dark Horse Analytics) Animated demonstrations that show simplifying chart colors and elements is best.
Telling the Truth
(IDV Solutions) - Evaluating the different methods of coloring chloropleth maps, but useful for any categorization of numeric values
Picking Colors
ColorBrewer
- Assistance picking a color scheme (Cynthia Brewer, Penn State University)
Your Friendly Guide to Colors in Data Visualization
- An exploration of color (Lisa Charlotte Rost)
Learn by Example
Bad to Good
Chart Makeovers show how poor visualizations could have been done right:
Mistaken Data
from
Flowing Data
(see also
Ugly Charts
which cannot be fixed)
Makeovers
from Storytelling with Data - Includes Excel files with the revised graphs
Makeovers
from Stephanie Evergreen - Includes both chart and slide redesigns
Redesigns
from PolicyViz - Includes Excel files with the revised graphs
Junk Charts
from Kaiser Fung - A huge collection of examples with examples from the news
Chart Busters
from
Peltier Tech
- Many examples with a discussion of various possibilities and reasons
Makeover Mondays
- Collaboration between
VizWiz
and
TriMyData
Provides the
Datasets
ahead of time; uses Tableau
Bad Examples from Scientific Literature
How to display data badly
is a classic article by
Howard Wainer in The American Statistician that shows many examples from the scientific literature.
The top ten worst graphs
in the scientific literature according to Karl Broman
Bad Examples (User-Contributed)
Data is Ugly
- user-created Reddit compilation of "ugly" graphs
Visualizations that Make No Sense
- blog with user contributions
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