In my visualization post, What Makes a Good Data Visualization I mentioned two aspects of data to consider. You want a graph that conveys ideas from the data that are too complex to explain ...

If there’s one thing that characterizes the Information Age that we find ourselves in today, it is streams of data. However, ...

The chief data reporter for the Financial Times discusses how he considers the use of text, color, and annotation to aid ...

You don’t need a data science or business analysis degree to learn data visualization. Education. Colleges. ... here’s a chart that displays the same data both on a graph and with a map. Treemap.

Data visualization takes your data (numbers) and places it in a visual context, such as a chart, graph, or map. It also helps create data stories that communicate insights with clarity.

The two graphs below show the exact same data, but use different scales for the y-axis: On the left, we’ve constrained the y-axis to range from 3.140% to 3.154%. Doing so makes it look like ...

Handling small data samples Background: Sometimes communicators omit data from a visualization because the sample sizes are very small. The National Congress of American Indians says American Indian ...