Last week, I was quite bothered by this chart I produced using the Baby Name Voyager tool. According to this chart, William has drastically declined in popularity over time. The name was 7 times more popular back in the 1880s...
Last week, I was quite bothered by this chart I produced using the Baby Name Voyager tool. According to this chart, William has drastically declined in popularity over time. The name was 7 times more popular back in the 1880s...
With each succeeding year, I get more and more frustrated with "minimalist" designs that have little respect for users. This Christmas, I received a portable cellphone charger as a gift. A thoughtful gift. I have heard of these devices but...
Note: I'm traveling during the holidays so updates will be infrequent. Reader Daniel L. pointed me to a blog post discussing the following weather map: The author claimed that many readers misinterpreted the red color as meaning high temperatures when...
This chart cited by ZeroHedge feels like a parody. It's a bar chart that doesn't utilize the length of bars. It's a dot plot that doesn't utilize the position of dots. The range of commute times (between city centers and...
Alberto Cairo, Stephen McDaniel and I were asked about our "favorite" data visualization at the Qlik Conference this week. Stephen wrote up our answers here.
One of my students analyzed the following Economist chart for her homework. I was looking for it online, and found an interactive version that is a bit different (link). Here are three screen shots from the online version for years...
Infographics do not have to be "data ornaments" (link). Once in a blue moon, someone finds the right balance of pictures and data. Here is a nice example from the Wall Street Journal, via ThumbsUpViz. Link to the image What...
Alberto Cairo discussed a graphic by the New York Times on the slowing growth of Medicare spending (link). The chart on the top is published, depicting the quite dramatic flattening of the growth in average spending over the last years--average...
The Google Charts API is quite powerful and via googleVis you can access it from R. Here is an example that demonstrates how you can zoom into your chart. In the example below I set the maximum zoom level to 5% of the chart. Drag and pan with a left mo...
The New York Times Upshot team came up with a dataviz that is worth your time. This is a set of maps that gives a perspective on migration patterns within the US. The metric being portrayed is the birthplace of...
