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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 with a disease and the age at which they were diagnosed. In other words, there were just two simple variables: age and sex.
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How to Visualize Demographic Data: From Boring Bullet Points into Great Graphs

Sep 11th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations
There’s nothing more boring than a slide full of bullet points! Bullet points scream, “I cared so little about my audience that I made these slides on the airplane last night.” In this article, I’ll share the step-by-step process I followed to get rid of bullet points and replace them with engaging visuals.
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How to Enter Your Custom Color Codes in Microsoft Excel

Sep 26th, 2017 / Data Visualization
If you want to look polished, then you have no other choice but to customize your visualization’s color palette. Don’t worry–customizing your colors is an easy low-hanging-fruit edit.
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How to Adjust Your Bar Chart’s Spacing in Microsoft Excel

Jun 2nd, 2015 / Data Visualization
Why are the bars and columns in Microsoft Excel’s graphs so far apart?! Learn how to widen your bar charts by minimizing the “Gap Width” between bars/columns.
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Disaggregating with Small Multiples

Nov 25th, 2014 / Data Visualization
Designing a small multiples layout that gives viewers the information they really care about – the disaggregated data for their particular company, city, organization, or school.
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Dataviz Challenge #6: Can You Make a Unit Chart?

Oct 11th, 2013 / Data Visualization
Dataviz challenge #6 is here: can you make a unit chart?
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