Less is more: Declutter your charts!
Removing unnecessary elements when communicating with charts can greatly impact the effect the chart has on your audience. If a chart appears complex, we assume it is hard to read.
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Makeover Monday: Which states produce the most wind energy?
My aim with this makeover was to declutter the chart and show 3 pieces of information – installed capacity, investment and number of homes powered by Wind Energy.
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Basic statistics for exploring data : Measures of Variation
Measures of variation describe the width of a distribution. They define how spread out the values are in a dataset. In this article, we will look at 4 measures of variation and when to use them.
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Makeover Monday : President Trump’s “Executive Time”
The original shows 297 hours in executive time. I wanted to answer the question what percentage of each workday does Trump spend in executive time?
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#SWDChallenge : visualize variance
For this month’s SWDChallenge, Cole challenged us to visualize the variance in data. The mode, the median or the mean may not be a model that represents the entire dataset accurately. Hence it is important to visualize variance.
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Makeover Monday: How Chinese New Year compares with Thanksgiving
For this makeover, I wanted to bring in some context with population. Comparing China and US is not fair game. China’s population is at least 4 times that of US.
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What are dot plots in data visualization?
Dot plots use dots to represent the position of value on the axis. They are useful for comparisons and are a good replacement for bars or clustered bars.
