Create Better Pie Charts
Pie charts are exclusively used in presentations, dashboards and reports. Yet they have a very bad reputation among data visualization designers. I believe this bad …
Dashboards and Data Stories
The August monthly challenger over at Storytelling with Data was one I learnt a lot from. The challenge was to find a publicly available dashboard, …
Area Chart Examples
What is an area chart Area charts are very similar to line charts but the area between the axes and the line is emphasized with …
Flowers – Google Trends Data Visualization
Ahead of Mother’s Day on Sunday and with inspiration from plants and flowers today’s post features a small flower related infographic. I turn to Google …
Are we in pain? – Google Trends Data Visualization
Google Trends shows a significant increase in searches related to different kinds of physical pain. Here is how the trend gos for generic pain searches: …
Why wear sunscreen – an infographic
What is sunscreen Sunscreen products are skin care products that contain active ingredients with properties that block UV rays from penetrating the skin on our …
Wild Animals Population Data
*Disclamer about the data used: I have collected the data for this post from different sources online, some discrepancies are possible but the message and …
Timeline of Cannabis Legalization in the US by State – A Data Story
In the United States under federal law the use of cannabis for any purposes is illegal. However in the 80s and 90s many states began …
How to Animate a Map with Flourish Stories
I recently worked on visulizing data on a US map. Usually maps are a type of a heatmap showing data values using a certain color …
The Violin Plot
What is Violin plot Violin plots are used to visualize data with its probability density at different values. Violin plots are great if you want …