We’re all in this dataviz field for different specific reasons, but I’d like to think one commonality among us is the belief in objective truth. Facts are facts. You can’t argue with the numbers. Evidence beats speculation. Cite your sources. And so on. And in the course of performing our jobs, we strive to be as faithful to the facts as we possibly can be. We don’t create intentionally misleading interfaces, or conjecture wildly about causality. We let the data speak for its

Greetings and salutations! Many of you are hard at work on your IronViz submissions, which is what I SHOULD be doing, but it’s haaaaaaaaard. And I don’t waaaaaaannnaaaa. In the meantime, let’s talk about a fun little trick that I used for this week’s Makeover Monday, one that has an extremely limited use case but is a fun little tool to have at your disposal. I’m talking about the rotated scatterplot. For some viz I worked on the past, I was underwhelmed by the quality of the

A gentle reminder: if you haven't looked at, or maybe even filled out, my survey about failure, I'd really appreciate it if you did. It only takes a few minutes and I'd love to get some different stories and perspectives for something I'm working on: https://t.co/p7Fim8ysB7 Aren't you darling? Just as sweet as peach pie in a cotton candy basket. Now let's get on with the show. Although I am not a child of the 90s, I nevertheless developed an incredible fondness for one partic

First, a request: if you haven't looked at, or maybe even filled out, my survey about failure, I'd really appreciate it if you did. It only takes a few minutes and I'd love to get some different stories and perspectives for something I'm working on: https://t.co/p7Fim8ysB7 Thank you. You are very nice and everybody says so. Now, on with the post. I have a challenge for you. If I asked you to design a Tableau dashboard in the style of Jonni Walker, could you do it? Actually, l