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Heatmaps are cool. Most people like them. They are so much prettier than a bar chart. The one below, created in Making your data hot:…

There is a war in the world of visualization. It is about chartjunk. Designers like to create charts like the one above. Many data viz experts…

Once you have created segments or clusters, it is often useful to assign people in other data sets to the segments (this is also known as segment…

I have previously shown how Sankey or alluvial diagrams can easily be used to visualize response patterns in surveys and to display decision trees. Following…

If you have spent much time analyzing customer feedback survey data, then you have probably spent a lot of time validating it. This normally entails…

Don’t forget that you can easily use Displayr’s heatmap maker to create your free heatmap! Sometimes tables are just too big to read. The table below shows…

All else being equal, small visualizations are better than big visualizations. There is no need to take my word for it. You can prove it…

Sankey diagrams are perfect for displaying decision trees (e.g., CHART, CHAID). I used to think that Sankey diagrams were just one of those cool visualizations…

Why do some tweets sizzle while others fizzle? Sometimes it’s obvious. But if you have a large quantity of tweet text, or other text for…

I have previously written about some of the text analysis options that are available in Displayr: sentiment analysis, text cleaning, and the predictive tree.  As…

It is common when people create word clouds that they want more control. Limit the word cloud to frequently occurring words. Join together words in phrases. Automatically…

Check out the interactive R visualization below. Click on one of the circles with lots of lines connected to it and drag it around. I…

Don’t forget that you can easily use Displayr’s heatmap maker to create your free heatmap! The other day, my local paper showed what it called a “photo” of…

There are lots of great visualizations designed for analyzing big quantities of data. Heatmaps, for example, are super-popular. However, when I am in a rush,…

It will not be immediately obvious, but Excel is a key inspiration for the design of Displayr. However, when you jump into Displayr you will be…

Most data scientists have pretty clear picture of how variables should be created – and it almost certainly involves writing code. While you can take this approach in Displayr,…

Palm trees are my favorite visualization. They look great. They are easy to understand. There is no other visualization that is as effective at decomposing…

In the world of startups, it is said that if you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, then you’ve launched too late.…

There are lots of ways to get your data into Displayr. They range from cutting and pasting, through to writing advanced data queries in SQL and…

One of Displayr’s unique strengths is the creation and presentation of tables, charts, and other visualizations. This post give a quick overview of the different…

Once you have your data in Displayr, and have created some tables, the next step is to perform calculations using these tables as inputs.  The…

This post gives a brief overview of how the more advanced data science analysis methods work in Displayr.     Which advanced data science methods are…

This is the final blog post in our series introducing Displayr’s functionality. It focuses on reporting.     Creating a report by exporting the document A Displayr document…

This blog post is updated semi-regularly. It was last updated on July 23, 2019. Recap The engineering teams have been super-productive over the last six…

This blog shows how to create a filter. Before reading this blog, make sure you check out Using Displayr to filter data, analyses, and whole…

Displayr’s approach to filtering is uniquely powerful. Filters can be applied to tables, charts, complex visualizations, advanced analyses, and text (with a bit of care).…

Displayr has lots of tools designed to simplify data analysis. At the core of these tools is the concept of a variable set. The idea of…