Getting people excited about their data one visual at a time
Readers: Back on July 24, 2016, I blogged on my data visualization web site a stacked bar chart titled Who Lies More?, created by Robert Mann, answering the question which politicians lie more. His chart was based on data from PolitiFact. I have received a lot of site traffic based on posting Robert’s chart. I was interested in…
Read more Tableau Public: Who Lies The Most? The 2016 Presidential Election
Readers: Each week, I receive one or two data visualization examples from you folks out in the trenches. Bethany Emerson, Outreach Specialist at Ghergich & Co., sent me an interesting infographic on color theory they helped develop for Quill.com. Bethany states: We teamed up with Quill to create an infographic on color theory. We cover…
Source: Katie Park, Alyson Hurt, Tyler Fisher and Lisa Charlotte Rost/NPR, Map: How Per-Pupil Spending Compares Across U.S. School Districts, Education Week, April 18, 2016, http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/map-how-per-pupil-spending-compares-across-us.html?override=web. An Education Week Research Center analysis of federal data shows spending levels per student in most U.S. school districts for fiscal year 2013. The school finance analysis comes from…
Read more DataViz as Map: How Per-Pupil Spending Compares Across U.S. School Districts
On this Labor Day weekend, we took a look at the state of the American workforce—including who loves their jobs, who hates their jobs, and where the workforce is going. But do you know how this end-of-summer holiday began? The first observance of Labor Day was likely on September 5, 1882, when some 10,000 workers assembled…
Readers: This past June, Mondo, purveyor of all kinds of pop culture goodness, help an exhibition called “Info-Rama” at its gallery space in Austin, TX. The show featured playfully creative infographics by artists Tom Whalen, Kevin Tong and Matt Taylor that “seek to illustrate and illuminate classics like ‘Back to the Future,’ ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja…
Readers: Here is another infographic from one of my favorite illustrators, Richard Johnson (photo, right). If you search on his name on my blog site, you will see several different examples of his work I have highlighted before. Enjoy! Michael
Read more Infographic: Invasion of the Drug Cartels (Richard Johnson)
Source: Ajith Nayar, Timeline of Analytics, Manthan.com, November 3, 2015, https://thoughts.manthan.com/2015/11/03/timeline-of-analytics?utm_content=buffer755a9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer.
