Back in February I wrote about 7 Do's and Don'ts of DataViz. My first "don't" was "Don’t use a chart when a sentence will do" with the accompanying bar chart:
As noted in that article, the bar chart above can be…
This is Part 2 (in a series of 2) on why color is a complex and confusing topic. In Part 1 I looked at cases where colors might not be interpreted as expected. Here I'll cover the difficulties of picking a suitable palette.
Even if you…
In all the articles I've written here I've covered a fairly broad range of topics related to data visualization: the use of tick marks and labels, data density, the problems with dual-axis charts and much more. I've touched upon the use of color a…