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.…
As the Olympic Games and fervor go on for a few more days, FiveThirtyEight.com published an article early this week, titled "Hosting the Olympics is a Terrible Investment". The ongoing Rio Olympics had overrun its budget by 50% by the time the Olympic torch was lit at the opening ceremonies. What sort of investment goes into hosting…
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…