I was looking at some Canadian data graphics while planning my talk in Vancouver this Thursday (you can register for the free talk here). I love the concept behind the following chart: Based on the forecasted temperature for 2015 (specifically...
I was looking at some Canadian data graphics while planning my talk in Vancouver this Thursday (you can register for the free talk here). I love the concept behind the following chart: Based on the forecasted temperature for 2015 (specifically...
On Twitter, someone pointed me to the following map of journalists who were killed between 1993 and 2015. I wasn't sure if the person who posted this liked or disliked this graphic. We see a clear metaphor of gunshots and...
The following chart caught my eye when it appeared in the Wall Street Journal this month: This is a laborious design; much sweat has been poured into it. It's a chart that requires the reader to spend time learning to...
Ted Ballachine wrote me about his website Pension360 pointing me to a recent attempt at visualizing pension benefits in various retirement systems in the state of Illinois. The link to the blog post is here. One of the things they...
Thanks to reader Charles Chris P., I was able to get the police staffing data to play around with. Recall from the previous post that the Washington Post made the following scatter plot, comparing the proportion of whites among police...
Making data graphics interactive should improve the user experience. In practice, interactivity too often becomes overhead, making it harder for users to understand the data on the graph. Reader Joe D. (via Twitter) admires the statistical sophistication behind this graphic...
Back in 2009, I wrote about a failed attempt to visualize regional dialects in the U.S. (link). The raw data came from Bert Vaux's surveys. I recently came across some fantastic maps based on the same data. Here's one: These...
Note: If you are here to read about Google Flu Trends, please see this roundup of the coverage. My blog is organized into two sections: the section you are on is about data visualization; the other section concerns Big Data...
Peter Cock sent this Venn diagram to me via twitter. (Original from this paper.) For someone who doesn't know genetics, it is very hard to make sense of this chart. It seems like there are five characteristics that each unit...
