Avoiding Diagonal Text in Your Charts
May 29th, 2014 / Data Visualization
I’ve been building portfolios of my work for a while. Over the past year or so I’ve been building an online … more »
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How to Objectively Measure Text Readability (and Lower Your Graph’s Reading Level)
If viewers can’t read your graph, why bother making it? Accessibility is at the top of my priority list. A … more »
More »When Your Graph Is Too Smooshed to Read
May 29th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations
You want to display a lot of historical data–great! But sometimes we have so many points in time that our … more »
More »Home Visiting Dataviz: Three Steps to Making a Good Graph Great
Apr 26th, 2018 / Data Visualization
Whether you’re visiting a web site or a listening to a presentation, you’ve probably thought about data visualization as a … more »
More »The Best Visualization Tool of All Time
Dec 9th, 2014 / Data Visualization
It’s your brain. A few of the million+ decisions your software program can’t make for you: 10. Which chart is … more »
More »How to Visualize Age/Sex Patterns with Population Pyramids in Microsoft Excel
Nov 13th, 2018 / Data Visualization
I recently worked with a state public health agency that wanted to depict how many males and females were diagnosed … more »
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