tl;dr: A recent exchange that I had on LinkedIn underscored a humbling but crucial truth: the same chart design that seems clear and obvious to some can be genuinely confusing to others, even among...

I don't use radar graphs because more informative and familiar chart types such as heatmaps and overlapping cycles charts can always communicate the same insights.

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How much minimalism is too much minimalism? I explore this question and propose the most minimalist, highest scoring data-to-ink ratio on a visualization ever made as a thought piece. Why? Well novice...

I get it. With the unpredictability that's been injected into the global economy, many of us are hesitant to make any kind of new investments, including new upskilling investments. That's why I've de...

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How much minimalism is too much minimalism? I explore this question and propose the most minimalist, highest scoring data-to-ink ratio on a visualization ever made as a thought piece. Why? Well novice...

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😱Unpopular opinion warning😱: 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟰 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀. Yesterday, I posted a video about the strengths and weaknesses of AI ...

My Practical Charts course is tool agnostic, that is, it doesn’t assume that any particular dataviz software product (Excel, Tableau, Google Sheets, etc.) is being used. There are three reasons fo...

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If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.

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In last week’s post, I described how, while teaching data visualization to thousands of professionals, I was surprised to discover that many audiences don’t know how to read chart types that many char...

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Explore the aftermath of moving away from box plots in data visualization. Discover alternative chart types and a critique of box plot usage.

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Trigger warning: This post isn’t (directly) dataviz-related. Not to flex or anything, but I’m somewhat of a connoisseur of hotel shower faucets.

Military analyst, based in Denmark. I try not to focus too much on the maritime domain, but it is my specialty so it can be hard to avoid.

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