Comments on: How to Apply Your Brand Colors in Dataviz (Ordinal, Diverging, Categorical, and More)

By: Ann K. Emery | Visualizing Survey Results: Crowded Agree-Disagree Scales

Ann K. Emery | Visualizing Survey Results: Crowded Agree-Disagree Scales — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:40:01 +0000

[…] Agree/disagree survey scales are diverging variables so we need a diverging color palette. I selected two hues (blue and red). The most saturated version of each color goes on the outer poles. The only problem with this traditional approach is that the graph is a bit crowded. Where are the viewers supposed to look? What’s most important? When everything all at once is competing for attention, it’s easy to lose viewers. […]

By: Ann K. Emery | Giving Your Tableau Visualizations a Makeover: Custom Colors

Ann K. Emery | Giving Your Tableau Visualizations a Makeover: Custom Colors — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:24:32 +0000

[…] you’ll need to determine whether you want to add a categorical, sequential, or diverging palette. I’ll show you categorical. You can add the others as needed using the same […]

By: Ann K. Emery | Visualizing Survey Results: Assessing Knowledge Before and After a Program

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 00:31:29 +0000

[…] very knowledgeable to not at all knowledgeable scale is ordinal so I selected one hue (blue, or green, or orange) and used darker and lighter versions of each hue to correspond to the […]

By: Ann K. Emery | The Best Visualization Tool of All Time

Ann K. Emery | The Best Visualization Tool of All Time — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:28:46 +0000

[…] Whether your viewers will really understand that diverging stacked bar chart, or whether you should just stick to a regular old stacked bar […]

By: Vienna

Vienna — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:17:20 +0000

This is exactly what I need! I often see graphs in our reports that have some very strange/distracting/meaningless colour palettes, but just have no idea how I should fix it. Thank you 🙂

By: | The Dataviz Design Process: 7 Steps for Beginners

| The Dataviz Design Process: 7 Steps for Beginners — Thu, 01 May 2014 15:09:14 +0000

[…] For additional color resources, check out Nominal, Sequential, or Diverging: Simple Strategies for Improving Any Chart’s Colors. […]