How to Visualize Age/Sex Patterns with Population Pyramids
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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How to Visualize Demographic Data: From Boring Bullet Points into Great Graphs
Sep 11th, 2018 / Data Visualization
Have you heard?? My third online course, Great Graphs, is open for enrollment! The course includes 20 hours of video … more »
More »How to Enter Your Custom Color Codes in 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 … more »
More »How to Adjust Your Bar Chart's Spacing in Excel
Jun 2nd, 2015 / Data Visualization
Let’s pretend you’re graphing age distributions for a given county. You carefully formatted your histogram: you removed the border, lightened the grid … more »
More »Disaggregating with Small Multiples
Nov 25th, 2014 / Data Visualization
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Kampala, DC… it’s been a wonderful few months in the data visualization … more »
More »Dataviz Challenge #6: Can You Make a Unit Chart?
Oct 11th, 2013 / Data Visualization
Lately I’ve been feeling let down by summary statistics: the min and max, mean and median, quartiles and standard deviation… They … more »
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