Dual-axis charts can be… okay?

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

Stacked bar chart with rounded corners. A strength of this visualization is the integration of numbers and years, which makes a legend superfluous.

What can dinner parties teach us about dataviz? Thanks to ensemble perception, your brain is weirdly good at parallel processing faces, grass, and zillions of lines on charts.

“...visualization designers who build meaning as a tribute to themselves or as an aid to others.”

When to use small multiple line charts (vs. normal line charts) and how to create better ones. We'll cover the benefits of repeated lines, independent scales, sorting, colors, and more.

Share your idea for a talk at Unwrapped, the virtual Datawrapper conference in March 2024.

This is part of a series of posts about the 'little of visualisation design', respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline.