Visualising my step count: bars and lines together add insights
Analysing the data as aggregate bar charts and individual points on a line made me think about different ways I could improve my average step count.
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Which are the happiest countries? Visualising the top 10 countries on the Happy Planet Index
Set actions are versatile: the metric calculation can be used to change the chart, title and colour of the measure selector!
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How can meat eaters reduce the environmental impact of their diet?
By using colour and an insightful title, we can focus our audience’s attention to a key take-away.
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How to evaluate the results of an experiment visually using data?
The lollipop chart is a simple, fun variant on the bar chart whilst retaining most of its accuracy.
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How we can focus our data stories?
Through employing some storytelling techniques, including choosing an appropriate chart type, strategic use of colour and size and removing confusing or complicated elements we can enhance the focus of our data story.
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How can data visualisation support better decision making in the public sector?
There are a range of benefits that data visualisation can bring to help the public sector make better decisions. However, the type of visualisation we build depends upon the audience.
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Data visualisation can unlock hidden trends that require action!
Data visualisation can help unlock hidden trends through use of colour or insightful titles for example. This insight can be used to inform decision making before it is too late.
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#NWTUG Chart Chooser
Please have a go yourself to name each chart type, then click through to see if you are right and to reveal it’s advantages and disadvantages.
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Visualisation can highlight a story in your data
Data visualisation can be useful for highlighting relationships within sub-sets of a larger dataset. This can be useful for focussing the audience onto a particular story or point.
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Tailoring Explanatory and Exploratory Data Visualisations with Colour
Creating two different designs made me think about how to use colour to tailor my data visualisation to different audiences.
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Visualising the natural World around us – basic bar charts versus square area charts
I recently participated in both the March and April 2018 Story Telling with Data Challenges: Basic Bar Charts and Square Area Charts respectively published by Cole Knaflic. This got me thinking about the pros and cons of both a common, simple chart type such as the basic bar chart versus a more unusual, arguably more complex chart type such as the square area chart.
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Visualising data on the top 10 exporting countries for drugs and medicines
Tell a story e.g. the USA is the only non-European country in the top 10 exporters for drugs and medicine.
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Visualising how much profit the 25 wealthiest US companies make per second
I wanted to focus upon what proportion of the total profit per second the 25 wealthiest US companies made was due to a small number of companies such as Apple? To do this I used a Pareto Chart, which compares the cumulative percentage of profit made per second to the equivalent cumulative number of companies.
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Visualising data on romantic preferences across the World
I decided to use colour more selectively to highlight the preference for personality over other characteristics.
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Are Americans buying more fake or real Christmas Trees?
Americans are buying more fake Christmas Trees over time, but still prefer real ones.
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