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….
If there is one advice I could give my last year self, it would be to stop running behind learning new tools. Donāt 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 simpleĀ to create a table…
When I came across this graph in the Economic Times this morning, I thought to myself there are so many ways in which bar charts can be used for comparisons, but this right here is not one of them. To compare 2 bar charts, they should have a consistent axis. 2.58 million is not equal…
The Rhetoric of Data Rhetoric is defined as the art of effective or persuasive speaking or communication. In information visualization, rhetoric is like a double-edged sword. Letās first visit the dark side of rhetoric, the side that can be used to manipulate viewers into reaching incorrect conclusions. Data can be used to create a variety…