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Ever Heard of a Dendrogram?
When Jenny Lyons and I were pulling together the revised chapter on Qualitative Visualization in Effective Data Visualization, 2nd edition, we ended up ditching this section on dendrograms. In the list of most-likely-to-use qualitative visuals, this one is probably...
Super Fast Small Multiple Graphs in Excel
Every time I show this trick to even veteran Excel ninjas, their heads explode. So you have probably heard me preach the gospel of small multiples once or twice before. Breaking a clutter-y graph into a lot of smaller graphs that show one piece of data at a time can...
Pre-Work Checklists
I have learned all of these lessons the hard way. I now have two checklists I run through before I have a workshop. One handles logistics and it'll only be useful if you also run workshops. The other helps me determine whether a potential client and I are a good fit...
No Unnecessary Lines
The Lines section of the Data Visualization Checklist helps us enhance reader interpretability by handling a lot of the junk, or what Edward Tufte called the “noise” in the graph. I'm referring to all of the parts of the graph that don’t...