The creative part of my brain has been asleep for a very long time :( If you are like me, one way to get your creative juices flowing is to sketch on paper. This is a post with sketches on how to visualize survey data. There are so many ways to show survey data.…
I was introduced to the concept of signifiers and affordances by Don Norman’s book, “The Design of Everyday Things”. Though this post is about signifiers, it is important to start with affordances as they go hand-in-hand. What are affordances? The term affordance was coined by James Gibson (1977, 1978) and concept originates from ecological psychology.…
If there is one advice I could give my last year self, it would be to stop running behind learning new tools. Don’t get me wrong, tools are very useful in every realm we use them in. The problem begins when we skip learning concepts and jump directly to learning tools. Allow me to explain…
We use tables in our daily work to share data with co-workers as well as to present data in meetings and other events. Tables are great for look up, comparison and are widely understood. But do we pay enough attention in choosing the right design for a table? It is very simple to create a table…
This week I decided to work on the data from the Makeover Monday Project. I used Tableau to create the visual. Using a tool like Tableau, I realized, offers great flexibility in the number of charts I can create in the exploration phase. Having created most of my previous visuals using Excel, this was a…
Today is National Bean Day. As per Wikipedia, there are about 40,000 bean varieties in the world and only a fraction of these are mass produced for global consumption. Being a vegetarian, I am always on the look out for vegetarian protein sources. And beans are one of the best sources of vegetarian protein. To…
The only way to learn visualization is to create more visuals. If you are like me and struggle to find data or topics to visualize, here is a project for you to work along. Visual of the Day is a project to create a visual story based on the daily celebration topic from NationalDayCalendar. Today is…