How to Check Whether Your Graphs are Grayscale-Friendly
Oct 15th, 2019 / Data Visualization
Here’s how to quickly see what your graphs are going to look like when printed in grayscale–without having to actually waste ink by printing a draft.
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How to Create a Simple Visual Style Guide WITHOUT a Designer!
Sep 5th, 2019 / Data Visualization
Making reports, presentations, and other communications have a consistent and polished look and feel may be a lot easier than you think. Guest authors Meihsi Chiang and Nikole Lobb Dougherty have found that a great starting point is a do-it-yourself visual style guide – which can be developed with very few resources.
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Jul 23rd, 2019 / Data Visualization
“Branding continuity builds trust with your key stakeholders and makes you and your work look more professional.”
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Jun 13th, 2019 / Data Visualization
Esther C. Nolton attended one of my data visualization workshops in May 2019, and almost immediately followed up with examples of her own reports and slideshows that she had begun revamping based on what she learned in the session. Here In this guest post she outlines the three most used lessons that she took away from the workshop.
More »Stop Making People Read Across Multiple Pie Charts (& Here’s What to Do Instead)
Mar 14th, 2019 / Data Visualization
If you’ve read this blog before, or heard me speak, then you know that designing data visualization makeovers is one of my favorite activities of all time. I love redesigning pie charts, in particular.
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Sep 24th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations
I have a love-hate relationship with stacked bars charts. They’re a great way to show part-to-whole patterns (like an easier-to-read pie chart). But, like pie charts, they feel overwhelming once we add a bunch of different categories. Are they the worst chart of all time? Perhaps. Here’s how to make stacked bar charts more bearable.
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