As data viz creators, we are in a constant battle between the multiple ways in which we can present our data to an audience. Which is the best way to present the data? It depends. There is no one best way. But a good practice to follow is to choose one with clarity. Let me…
Dataset The dataset for MakeOverMonday project is hosted on data.world. Original Visualization What works in the original visualization? The visual represents the overtourism and undertoursim magnitudes in a single graph. The terms overtourism and undertourism are explained well. What doesn’t work in the original visualization? Circular shapes are not best suited for comparison and I…
A clustered bar chart is one of the most commonly used representations to compare change through time. A clustered bar chart, though a good option to compare values, does not represent the change through time effectively. Here is some data on which technology products consumers intend to buy in 2016 and how it compares against…
This week’s MakeoverMonday data is on Andy Kriebel’s Amex card transactions for 2016. My goal with this visualization was to understand and highlight two aspects of Andy’s credit card usage. Where does he spend the most money and what are the nature of the transactions? Does he spend a lot of money at once? Or…
Bullet Charts were developed by Stephen Few to replace the meters and gauges that are often used in business dashboards. Here is one such dashboard from Oracle BI Discoverer tool. The idea of gauges and meters is borrowed from an automobile dashboard where they are used to display data in a small amount of space….
The creative part of my brain has been asleep for a very long time š If you are like me, one way to get your creative juices flowing is to sketch on paper.Ā 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 Normanās book, āThe Design of Everyday Thingsā. 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….