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Hate the defaults 27 Aug 2013 | 05:33 pm
One piece of advice I give for those wanting to get into data visualization is to trash the defaults (see the last part of this interview with me). Jon Schwabish, an economist with the government, gi...
Kosara wants to rescue infographics 26 Aug 2013 | 05:03 pm
Robert Kosara takes us back to the 1940s, and an incredible "infographics" project by the Lawrence Livermoore Laboratory. (link) Here is one of the designs: Kosara laments: When did information grap...
How to get started in analytics 22 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
I will be giving a webinar today (Thursday) at 1 pm EST. The topic is Big Data and Marketing. I will give some tips on how to get into the data game. Click here to register. The registration link is ...
Light entertainment: Hidden time, and shifted label 20 Aug 2013 | 05:18 pm
Rick (via Twitter) tells me he is baffled by this chart that showed up in Financial Review: I'm baffled as well. What might the designer have in mind? Based on the cues such as length of the curv...
Book review: Data Points by Nathan Yau 19 Aug 2013 | 05:20 pm
One of my summer projects is to develop the curriculum for a new Certificate in Analytics and Data Visualization, offered at NYU (link). (If you are interested in teaching these courses, please contac...
Beautiful spider loses its way 15 Aug 2013 | 05:24 pm
On Twitter, Andy C. (@AnkoNako) asked me to look at this pretty creation at NFL.com (link). There is a reason why you don't read much about spider charts (web charts, radar charts, etc.) here. While ...
Beautiful spider loses its way 2 15 Aug 2013 | 05:18 pm
A double post today. In the previous post, I talked about NFL.com's visualization of football player statistics. In this post, I offer a few different views of the same data. *** The first is a dot...
Various ways to show variability 13 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
Reader Doeke W. sends me to this chart. I like many aspects of this exercise. This chart displays the results of an experiment conducted by a computer games company to show that the new build ("249")...
Stutter steps, and functional legends 7 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
Dona Wong asked me to comment on a project by the New York Fed visualizing funding and expenditure at NY and NJ schools. The link to the charts is here. You have to click through to see the animation....
Create your own fine print 6 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
Note: The winner of the Book Quiz Round 2 was announced on my book blog. Congratulations to the winners. You can get your own copy of Numbersense here. *** A common advice for anyone living in the U...
