Slopegraphs first appeared in Edward Tufte’s book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Slopegraphs compare changes usually over time for a list of nouns located on an ordinal or interval scale – Tufte Creating a Slopegraph in R While there are templates and tools available to create a Slopegraph, creating one in R still takes a…
Bar charts are one of the most commonly used chart types. They are easy to understand and are great for comparisons. But every so often we come across bar charts that are colorful, poorly designed and misleading. In this post, I want to give you 5 easy tips to create functional and beautiful bar charts. I…
In this post let’s talk about the importance of consistency when telling a story with charts. So what is consistency? Consistency in story telling comes from colors, type of charts, font and size of messaging, alignment of various chart objects, to name a few. Consistency is everything that makes a chart look neat and easily readable. Let’s look…
Let’s talk about one of the most hated charts in the data visualization community – Pie Charts. While pie charts are one of the most commonly used visual forms, they are also the most debated. There are numerous articles about why pie charts are a bad idea and a lot of critics are vocal about…
There was a time when I believed stacked bar charts were all bad. Stacked bar charts can be difficult to read. Beyond the first bar, we struggle to quantify the height of the bars as they do not have a common base. Is there a way to overcome this limitation? Let’s explore! We will work through…