A time for small multiples, and a time to smush it all together 25 Mar 2009 | 05:42 am

I'm currently locked in struggle at work with the creators of a trainwreck of a graph that I'm responsible for maintaining, that smushes a zillion lines together. I've suggested, as someone with a pro...

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin 13 Feb 2009 | 07:57 am

and Abraham Lincoln too. Not to disrespect Lincoln, it's just that I can't offhand think of an information graphic hook to hang his birthday on. Darwin has this: The tree format can't have been new; ...

Sorting and grouping 4 Jan 2009 | 07:41 am

Visual tables Visual intelligence is arranging a set of facts on a page or screen so their implications are comprehensible instead of incomprehensible, and sorting and grouping can help a lot. A commo...

British design stamps 28 Nov 2008 | 09:07 am

What I love about these is that the design of the "design stamps" is itself so beautiful, in the most understated way: clean white background and black and grey sans serif text and icon, nothing else ...

What the...? 20 Nov 2008 | 08:55 am

Using colour for preattentive processing in stacked bar graphs 23 Oct 2008 | 05:06 am

Earlier this month Robert Kosara at EagerEyes.org produced a visualisation of the difference, in historical US presidential elections, between the popular vote and the Electoral College vote, cast by ...

Another Nobel Prize for visual intelligence! 9 Oct 2008 | 11:26 pm

When Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year, robert Kosara at Eager Eyes called it "A Nobel Prize for Charts". Now the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded Osamu Shimomura, Mart...

Using spots and rings in tables 8 Oct 2008 | 07:58 pm

jenmoocat in comments asks about the "spot matrix" table I used to display the scores from one to ten of X options in Y categories. My technique has always been about using bubble charts, in a similar...

Reorderable tables II: Bertin versus the Spiders 25 Sep 2008 | 02:12 am

Chandoo at Pointy Haired Dilbert has a post about the inadequacies of radar, or spider, charts; using a sample of four (software?) options to be selected, and six scores by various criteria, he presen...

Giving in to data loss aversion 24 Sep 2008 | 08:27 am

D. Kelly O'Day, of the Process Trends web site, has a new Charts & Graphs blog, and his first post comments on the US Census Bureau's Current Population Reports data discussed by Jorge Camoes, and And...