You only get a little bit of text in your graph. Here’s how to make sure you get the most mileage out of it.
The minimum font size to use in your graph depends on the graph’s final destination and how far it’ll be from your readers.
How many decimal places do you really need? The level of precision in your data visualization depends entirely on your audience.
If your text wraps onto multiple lines, is diagonal, or cut off, your graph type needs to change so your text reads horizontal.
Intentional order means you’ve sorted the data so it’ll make sense to your audience. Promise, it’ll never be the order of questions on the survey.
We try to please too many audience needs in the same screenshot and then no one is happy and the dashboard dies a slow, expensive death.
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?
People interpret symbols as pictures, not words. That makes symbols, like $, more instantly recognized and understood than words, like dollar.
I gave two AI tools – ChatGPT and Gemini – two simple datasets and asked them to generate insightful titles.
Announcing my new chart chooser with 22 qualitative data visualization options.
