or countries or students or departments or… you just have a lot of categories to squeeze into your chart. How to proceed without creating a hot mess?
When You’ve Gotta Graph 62 Counties
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Show Your Symbols
People interpret symbols as pictures, not words. That makes symbols, like $, more instantly recognized and understood than words, like dollar.
Can AI Write Great Chart Titles?
I gave two AI tools – ChatGPT and Gemini – two simple datasets and asked them to generate insightful titles.
Ways to Visualize Statistical Significance
If you’ve passed the two criteria for communicating statistical significance, here are four ideas for ways to indicate it in your data visualizations.
Three Dots
Use your chart title to communicate a takeaway idea. What if your takeaway idea is complex or multi-part? Employ three dots.
Watching Leadership Catch the Insight
Have you ever worked for a client where you were going to have access to data so close to the chest that you had to sign a form acknowledging you could no longer trade their stock? That’s me, often, when I work with Fortune 100 companies.
Data Viz for Social Media
If you want your data to get consumed by more people, you have to design it for viewing on social media platforms where they consume visuals.
Qualitative Street Data Visualization
Let me add three new qualitative data visualization ideas to your library: Placement Maps, Timeline Ticks, and Sliders.
Ways to Show Change Over Time
If your data involves years / quarters / months / weeks / you see where I’m heading with this, you’ve got a story about change over time. What’s the best way to visualize that data?
Old Ideas That Don’t Work Anymore
What has changed the most in the past 10 to 15 years about what we teach people about presenting data? What used to be good ideas but aren’t any longer?