Colors in Data Visualization: 200+ Years Ago and Today
Playfair’s charts, from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century utilized single-color hand-engraved copperplate printing with the following hand-staining … Read More
Category: Storytelling with data
Why is storytelling (not) essential for effective data visualization?
There are explanatory and exploratory data visualizations. One tells a story and therefore needs a story, while the other helps to find a story or … Read More
How Charts Work: Understand and Explain Data with Confidence
The Financial Times is a source of great data-driven stories told through data visualization. The Financial Times vocabulary poster is a simple yet comprehensive tool … Read More
Power BI: HTML formatted titles
I hope Microsoft will allow HTML or BBCode tags in titles [ideas.powerbi.com]. It will be a game changer. In many cases a formatted title replaces … Read More
Elon Musk’s 12 Principles. Rocket building or data visualization?
I’ve just finished a post about 3D and animation in Power BI. Then I watched a short interview with Elon Musk and here I’m with … Read More
3D and animation in Power BI?
I was writing just a comment (about 3D cursed BI tools) in LinkedIn, but it’s going to be more than just a short comment, so … Read More
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
If your job is to talk with people about numbers (any numbers: profit and loss, salary, election results, number of stars in the universe) then … Read More
Line and stacked column chart with outliers
In this post I’ll show how to handle a time series of data with outliers (extremely high values). For example, number of new COVID-19 deaths … Read More