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Create a geographic map to your liking using the leaflet map package in Displayr Follow instructions on How to Make a Geographic Map in Displayr…

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.