Statistics can lie and charts can aid and abet. To do our audience justice, we have to visualize data responsibly. Avoid these traps.
Visualizing Responsibly
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Launch a Data Viz Revolution
When you know strong data visualization is crucial to your team’s success but you have a boss stuck in Windows 95, you need to manage up. You need sneaky ways to launch a data viz revolution at work.
Color is a Connector
When you use color as a connector between the different points of your data story, you ease the effort it would take your audience to follow along. You lower the mental hurdles so they can come with you.
Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Stoplight Color Schemes
Don’t google “data scorecard.” It’s full of stoplight color schemes. I have 3 solid reasons why the death grip on red-yellow-green has to go.
Fonts for Graphs
When it comes to your graphs, you need condensed fonts.
Data Visualization in Presentations
When you know your graph’s destination is an in-person presentation, incorporate these design tips so your work is visible from the last row.
10 Ways to Make Your Graphs More Accessible
Of course you can make data visualization that’s accessible to people with various disabilities. Take these 10 do-able actions to start.
The Data Visualization Checklist
The Data Visualization Checklist outlines what to do with each tiny part of your graph so it tells your story.
Ditch Your Chart Legends
When we make our audiences seek-and-find to match the legends & the content, we hurt cognition. Brains want this 🤞🏼, not this ✌🏼.
Where to Start and End Your Y-Axis
The Y-Axis Debate is one of the most hotly discussed among cool data nerds, like you and me and our friends. Going out for drinks with people like us is either a blast or a bore, depending on your nerd level. So let me clarify the parameters of the…
