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Every year the famed venture capitalist Mary Meeker releases her Internet Trends, a tour de force PowerPoint presentation. It’s an influential deck – this year’s…

Sankey diagrams are useful for visualizing relationships between variables. By applying different color schemes, we can highlight structures in the data.

Small multiples make comparison easy and fix overplotting Look at the radar chart above. What does it tell you? If you spend enough time looking…

For time-series data, you'll want to separate long-term trends and seasonal changes from random fluctuations. Find out which time smoother to use.

Within Displayr, there are different ways of visualizing your data. Before jumping into the detail, we acknowledge that ideally there would be only one system. As…

How to build an interactive geographic dashboard using Displayr, Plotly & R. This example is fascinating, tracking the actual position of military aircraft.

Using sparklines in charts with multiple series of data improves readability by showing where are we today, movement since last time and long-term trend.

Good practice in data visualization is to use small multiples, allowing us to tap into our brain's skill at interpreting visual complexity.

As a graphic designer who designs dashboards, I give you all the tips, tricks, and guidelines for creating a dashboard that everyone will love.

A step-by-step guide on how to create an interactive infographic using an example from Canva, Displayr and R (the R code is included in this post).

How do you pick the best visualizations to represent a single number in an eye-catching and informative way? Here are 12 tried and true tips and ticks.

Accuracy and readability of visualization can be improved by adding redundancy, which is elements like color, shape, size, labels, and order.

Seven alternatives to word clouds for visualizing data from long lists are illustrated. Examples are created using R and can be explored via a tool.

How to combine and format visual layers, elements, images and charts into one data visualization using R, Plotly and Displayr.

what do people want in a president? A new study finds supporters of Donald Trump believe that financial skills trump decency and ethics.

Pictographs are exceptionally good for displaying proportional data because they have an intrinsic scale and show quantities visually.

Pictographs are often ridiculed, but their bad reputation is not deserved. There are situations where pictographs are better than bar charts.

The Ranking Plot, also known as rank flow plots, are particularly useful when comparing data that is complex or that differs in magnitude.

5 ways of presenting the results of key driver analysis techniques, such as Shapley Value, Kruskal Analysis, and Relative Weights.

Heatmaps are cool. Most people like them. They are so much prettier than a bar chart. However, psychology tells us that these heatmaps are easy to misread.

There is a war in the world of visualization. It is about chartjunk. Designers like to create charts that data viz experts think are appalling, "chartjunk".

If you have spent much time analyzing survey data, then you have probably spent a lot of time validating it. Unless you use a Sankey diagram.

A heatmap, which replaces the numbers with colors or shades proportional to the numbers in the cell, is a lot easier for our brains to digest than a table.

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 to yourself here.

Today is national pi day. The number, not the food. I love pie charts. I recently chanced upon some data in need of a pie chart.

Sankey diagrams are not just a cool visualization that looks good, they are perfect for displaying decision trees (e.g., CHART, CHAID).

Pie charts tap into our instinctive ability to assess proportions when we look at things and should be considered when we need to communicate proportions.

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…

This post shows you why Displayr is the best tool for creating word clouds using real data about Tom Cruise (from a time when he was a bit less popular!).

Designers have a small amount of time, perhaps 5 seconds, to engage a viewer. So how do we create instantly recognizable visualizations that engage?

This heatmap achieves one of the core jobs of visualization: it attracts attention. It does so at too high a cost for me because of its poor use of color.

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…