It’s been two years since I posted about my 2020 US COVID daily fatalities handwoven visualization. I have had many interesting conversations about that piece (for examples, see here) and it’s one of my handmade projects for which I am … Continue reading
Category: dataVisualization
Book Review: The Book of Trees & The Book of Circles
This post is a review of a pair of related books, The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge and The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge, both by Manuel Lima. I ran across these on a list of … Continue reading
Life in the Time of COVID
Year 3 of this pandemic is quickly approaching and one might think we’d be getting used to being in these “unprecedented times.” And yet the last several months have been extra challenging for me, particularly as a parent of small … Continue reading
Visualizing COVID in Fiber
A side effect of being a data specialist-by-day and a crafter-by-night, is that the two sometimes combine. This leads to things like the bad passwords dress and the women in science dress, but more recently, I’ve been dabbling in data … Continue reading
Book Review: How Charts Lie
Continuing in my pandemic reading of data books, next up is “How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information” by Alberto Cairo. (I didn’t plan to be a predominately book review blog, but I need a way to channel the … Continue reading
A Framework for Choosing the Right Visualization Type for Your Data
I’m starting to do more work in the area of data visualization, as evidenced by my most recent publication and my somewhat periodic Twitter rants against pie charts. While I’ve already discussed one of my favorite visualization resources on the … Continue reading →
Why a Bar Chart is Sometimes Better than a Column Chart
Today on the blog, I’m going to talk about the difference between a bar chart (right-left bars) and a column chart (up-down bars). For many, the difference seems negligible — simply the direction of the bars — but the choice … Continue reading →
Book Review: Effective Data Visualization
I know a little bit about a lot of data things, but one area I’m weak in is data visualization. Sure, I can make a graph in Excel but that doesn’t mean that the graph is necessarily good. Thankfully, Sal … Continue reading →