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How to Visualize Age/Sex Patterns with Population Pyramids in Microsoft Excel

Nov 13th, 2018 / Data Visualization in Excel
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 in Excel
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 in Excel
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 in Excel
Dataviz challenge #6 is here: can you make a unit chart?
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