I subscribe to a lot of newspapers and magazines (some of which I read), but to satisfy my interest in data visualization, I find the best information often comes from people I follow on Twitter and from newsletter subscriptions. I’ll confess that I’m surprised at how many good conversations I see about data visualization on [...]
As people who read my newsletter or attend Chart Chat know, I was one of the volunteers who contributed to The Carbon Almanac. I also subscribe to the Carbon Almanac daily newsletter (it’s excellent). Here’s what came in the other day. I used to travel a lot to give public and private workshops. Then the [...]
The Chart Chat hosts discuss the tiny -- and not so tiny -- design decisions that go into crafting effective data visualizations. https://youtu.be/3qa94Yxt8Ks
The Chart Chat hosts speak with guests Seth Godin and Jasper Croome about creating the charts for The Carbon Almanac. https://youtu.be/Kz_EFINGXXY
Amanda Makulec interviews Steve, Jeff, and Andy as they reflect on The Big Book of Dashboards, five years later. https://youtu.be/kVh7I6gFB_c
So many wonderful things from 2021. In this post I share my favorite chart, channel, chat, and tool. My favorite chart: If cows were a country I love this McKinsey gem from Jason Forrest, Gabrielle Merite, and Gergo Varga. I know, it violates so-called best practices. The bars are 3D (they look like smoke-filled containers) [...]
A big “thank you” to Daniel Zvinca, Chris Lay, Anna Foard, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Joe Cohen for their feedback and encouragement. Overview I published a blog post earlier this year on how I recommend showing results for Likert-scale questions broken down by different demographics. I had become fond of how organizations like Pew Research does [...]
And some other thoughts on conditional formatting. Overview A few weeks ago my friend, Yamil Medina, asked me to attend a weekly livestream he hosts with his colleague at Data Meaning, Aaron Simmons. The livestream is called 3@3: A Mystery Chart Show and I enjoyed it so much I decide to hangout the following week. [...]
Understanding Index Charts and Log Scales https://youtu.be/Kzee9HyX6bU Index Charts are a great way to compare events that don't happen at the same time; for example, how are sales this quarter vs. last quarter, vs. a year ago this quarter? There are lots of business cases for this type of chart. What about log scales? [...]
Data Viz and Star Trek I chatted recently with Andy Cotgreave about the original Star Trek series and how impressed I was with Dr. McCoy’s sickbay monitor. I think this is an AMAZING KPI monitoring dashboard and a lot of organizations could benefit from something like this. (Hey, Nick Desbarats… this is similar to your [...]
