Word Clouds v Bar Charts for Text Analysis
Word clouds are a fun way to show text responses to a survey. However, they are not very accurate and can be misleading.
How do we make insights from sales dashboards stand out?
How do we make insights from sales dashboards stand out?
Colour is a powerful tool to enhance dashboard design.
It can be used to align to brands, show patterns, highlight performance and focus attention.
Visualising the Insight
Iterating through different designs can help come to the right chart solution to answer the right business question.
Where to start with visualising your survey data
In this article, we will explore some key issues, things to consider as well as practical tips for visualising survey data.
Visualising research into the top benefits of remote working
My submission is a simple curved bar chart with insights to clearly show the top benefits of remote working. The curved bars are a nice way to show the data in a modern style without compromising accuracy.
Small multiple versus stacked area charts
The takeaway here is that different designs can be adapted to show the required insights. Leading to more accurate decision making.
Visualising satisfaction survey data with audience focus
Changing the frame and focus helps tailor the visualisation to appeal to different internal, external or strategic audiences.
Let’s Practice Colour + Words in Data Visualisation
Colour and words are therefore a quick and easy way to highlight one of many potential insights from the data.
Drill down into sales performance!
By using interactive features such as dashboard actions we can reveal hidden insights all within the same dashboard!
Interactive Small Multiples
In my approach I use interactive parameters to drive the analysis, allowing users to select different measures.
Data Visualisation for Decision Making
A challenge social research analysts quite often face is how to effectively communicate data which will inform the solution to a particular social problem or issue. Decision makers quite often feel over whelmed by the wealth of information available. We need to reduce the time it takes for them to understand an issue and make an informed choice of how to resolve it. How do we go from a list of numbers to a clear message, which can inform a business decision such as where to target resources?
How to focus your audience’s attention in your data visualisations?
We have seen how the human brain processes visual information through iconic, short and long term memory. Pre-attentive attributes such as colour, length and position are visual properties that are processed very quickly in the sub-conscious memory. As data visualisers we can leverage pre-attentive attributes to focus our audience’s attention to highlight key performance issues.
Visually analysing the answers to why?
Building different views allows our audience to see different insights from the same data. This means being able to quickly ask and answer business questions. This is important to be able to see the underlying cause of problems. It also means that we can go exploring in detail different paths of analysis, which is a great way to engage our audience’s curiosity.
Highlighting data trends with interactive visualisations
Quite often we will see data visualisations which try to stand out by using too much colour. The problem is that this can lead to cognitive overload as there is too much to process. Additionally when everything is the same colour then nothing really stands out.
Visualising American sleep patterns over time – but can we trust the data?
One of the challenges of analysing data is dealing with imperfect datasets. For this week's #MakeoverMonday Challenge, I visualised the sleep patterns of Americans by age and gender over time. The data is interesting as it shows most Americans aged 15 and over are...