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The Best Visualization Tool of All Time

Dec 9th, 2014 / Data Visualization

The best visualization tool of all time? It’s your brain. I’m giving you a rundown of just ten (out of the few million+) decisions your software program can’t make for you.

Avoiding Diagonal Text in Your Charts

May 29th, 2014 / Data Visualization

As I look back at past reports there are definitely some things I would re-do if I had the chance. In particular, avoiding diagonal text in charts.

Introducing the Data Visualization Checklist

May 14th, 2014 / Data Visualization

This post has been a long time coming. Stephanie Evergreen and I knew some time ago that evaluators and social scientists had a thirst for better graphs, a clear understanding of why better graphs were necessary, but they lacked efficient guidance on how, exactly, to make a graph better. So we’re happy to introduce the data visualization checklist.