I'm pulling from my archive this week. Cartoons will be all about data visualization. …
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Serve up Survey Data with a Menu Infographic
During this week's Thursday discussions over at diydatadesign we'll be talking about different strategies for visualizing survey data. Preparing for that call inspired this post. The …
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Reporting for the Small Screen
Just a guess here, but I don't think smart phones are going away anytime soon. I think it's time to really start focusing on how we can use the technology as a reporting tool. And stop pretending …
Creating GIFs to Explain Charts
So who has time to read the small print? We are in an age where even large print is rarely read. Unfortunately there a lot of really good charts that require at least a little bit of …
Why you shouldn’t decrease your data-ink ratio.
From Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: A large share of ink on a graphic should present data-information, the ink changing as the data change. Data-ink is the …
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Hans Rosling as a performer.
I think we tend to undervalue Hans Rosling as a performer while hyping his data visualization. When you first watched his early *TED talks did you think, "Maybe I should create a bubble chart?" Or …
The big reason to stop coloring maps
From Let’s Tesselate: Hexagons For Tile Grid Maps by Danny DeBelius of the npr visuals team: As the saying goes, nothing is certain in this life but death, taxes and requests for geographic data to …
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How pictures help you discover the unexpected.
From Nathan Yau in his book Visualize This: Visualization One of the best ways to explore and try to understand a large dataset is with visualization. Place the numbers into a visual space and let …
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Scott McCloud’s lesson on time in comics and what it means for infographics.
As a data designer and cartoonist, I have been heavily influenced by Scott McCloud's book on Understanding Comics. The cool thing about his book is that many of the concepts can be applied very …
What Ann K Emery really thinks about clustered bar charts.
Today's illustration was inspired by Ann K Emery's blog post on six alternatives to the clustered bar chart. We can all agree that 3-d exploding pie charts are pretty rotten. My vote for worst …
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ODI shares 10 things to know about evaluation, number 5 is on failures.
Today's illustration was inspired by an infographic created by the Overseas Development Institute. 5. 'Failures" are important. Evaluation is sometimes driven by desire to show that a …
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Minimum Viable Explanation – cartoon flashback
Today's cartoon flashback comes from a big Q&A post on blogging I pulled together a couple of years ago. Specifically from Nathan Yau's response when asked about his biggest blogging …
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