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When cool design breaks a dashboard. 8 techniques to avoid.

chart planet Posted on 2024-09-03 by Chart Planet2024-09-03

We do want to make beautiful dashboards because beauty is attractive, looks tidy, reliable and helps to create impact with our visualizations. But beauty is also just a package – the value of a dashboard is in the way it helps to read the data intuitively. Forgetting all other things except beauty might lead to poor readability and a confusing experience overall, in other words makes users more frustrated than happy.

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Posted in blog | Tagged Dashboard

What to Consider When Considering the Audience

chart planet Posted on 2024-02-06 by Chart Planet2024-02-06

The article is published at Nightingale – the Journal of Data Visualization Society.

Image on the right is made by Stable Diffusion

“Considering the audience” is one of the most important pieces of advice in storytelling and data visualization. It is generally suggested to think about their needs, goals, and ability to understand the items displayed in the visual.

This allows our message to reach them more easily and resonate with them better, but the idea of “considering the audience” itself is quite vague. Some of us have a natural sense of empathy and “get” the right approach quickly, while some of us don’t and need a more concrete checklist.

For example, we have guidelines on how to deal with colour blindness – which is a trait our audience might have, but examples like these are usually floating alone.

In this article, I will turn the vague suggestion “consider the audience” into something more checklist-like, which you could go through and consider the audience “considered”.

Read full article at Nightingale.

Posted in blog | Tagged External post, Nightingale

How to make a dashboard look cool (and still safe): 10 techniques

chart planet Posted on 2023-09-05 by Chart Planet2024-07-06

What if your client or stakeholder asks to make the dashboard you prepared to be more eye-catching, beautiful, or just cool? In such cases, we have one job – a very subtle one – to enhance UI without sacrificing UX, dataviz or information designs, maybe even enhancing them altogether.

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Posted in blog | Tagged dashboard design, UI

An opinion on China

chart planet Posted on 2023-07-25 by Chart Planet2023-07-25

This post is an opinion. The mix of traditional and simplified characters is intentional.

Made with R and Inkscape.

Posted in charts EN | Tagged Geopolitics, map

Most dataviz best-practices fight one of those three enemies: what are they?

chart planet Posted on 2023-07-12 by Chart Planet2023-07-18

You can find maybe 1000 articles with “most important”, “essential” or “golden” rules of data visualization and their set will be unique every time.
Here, I will try to extract principles for data visualization from the underlying reasons why data visualization is even a thing.

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Posted in blog | Tagged best-practices, data visualization, fundamentals, UX design

Movies Discovery Tool 2

chart planet Posted on 2023-06-05 by Chart Planet2023-06-05

Warning! After using this tool only a bit the watchlist grows instantly!

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Posted in applications | Tagged Exploration interface, Interactive, Movies, Tableau

Noriu piešti gražias duomenų vizualizacijas. Kuo tai padaryti?

chart planet Posted on 2023-02-08 by Chart Planet2023-07-06

Šiame straipsnyje pasidalinsiu rekomenduojamomis duomenų vizualizavimo priemonėmis priklausomai nuo to, kokiu tikslu jos piešiamos.

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Posted in blog LT | Tagged Duomenų vizualizacija, Įrankiai

Chaotic, Neutral and Lawful

chart planet Posted on 2022-11-22 by Chart Planet2023-03-29

Lawful – following the best data visualization rules.

Neutral – basically following the defaults.

Chaotic – doing some “design”.

Good – trying to provide information in a clear way.

Neutral – you just need numbers, here are your numbers.

Evil – let’s pick fancy chart!

How is the pie chart among “good” ones?

Posted in charts EN | Tagged Excel, Meme

What are the differences between men and women according to MBTI?

chart planet Posted on 2022-07-27 by Chart Planet2023-03-18

What: Type distributions among men and among women.
When: Data was gathered in 2018.
Where: A selection of mostly western countries with representative samples.
Source: MBTI Manual Global Supplements Series | The Myers-Briggs Company (themyersbriggs.com)

Posted in charts EN | Tagged Dumbbell chart, Interactive, MBTI, Tableau

Where each MBTI type is the most common?

chart planet Posted on 2022-07-13 by Chart Planet2023-03-18

What: % of all respondents in a country which represent this type. Country = 100% , but wider bars indicate, that this % of this type is among the top 3 highest in all listed countries. If you’re looking for this type – it is best to look in this country.
When: Data was gathered in 2018.
Where: Only the countries with representative samples are portrayed in the chart.
Source: MBTI Manual Global Supplements Series | The Myers-Briggs Company (themyersbriggs.com)

Posted in charts EN | Tagged Interactive, MBTI, Stacked bar chart, Tableau

Is energy the main driver of inflation?

chart planet Posted on 2022-06-28 by Chart Planet2023-03-18

What: Annual inflation of different items. “Energy” is an aggregate compiled from “Transport” and “Housing” items, so it does overlap with them.
When: 1997-2021
Where: European Union – from 15 countries in 1996, to 27 countries in 2021.
Source: Eurostat database

Posted in charts EN | Tagged Bump chart, Inflation, Interactive, Scatterplot, Tableau

Inflation and interest rates were going down … until NOW

chart planet Posted on 2022-04-20 by Chart Planet2023-03-18

What: Annual inflation rate and 3-month interbank rate.
When: Every month from January 1990 till January or February 2022 (latest data available).
Where: All countries available in the OECD database (OECD countries + some other countries) which have data for 2022 (that’s why no China here) except Luxembourg.
Source: OECD

Posted in charts EN | Tagged Connected scatterplot, Interest, Post-design, Prices, R

You can still cheat in Tableau! Examples of dark practices

chart planet Posted on 2022-01-01 by Chart Planet2023-03-18

Tableau is famous for following the best of the best practices in the DataViz world, but there are still plenty of ways to make misleading charts.

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Posted in blog | Tagged Dark practice, Tableau (blog)

What are the long term gains on cryptocurrencies?

chart planet Posted on 2021-06-16 by Chart Planet2023-03-18

What: The chart shows average daily gain in $ if $1000 were invested at a date on x-axis. Total gain was divided by the number of days between the day of investing and June 13, 2021. Gains were calculated on average 30-day prices.
When: from March 28, 2013, till June 13, 2021
Source: investing.com and coingecko.com

Posted in charts EN | Tagged Area chart, Cryptocurrency, Post-design, R

Is the economic gap between new and old EU members closing?

chart planet Posted on 2021-06-02 by Chart Planet2023-03-18

What: GDP per capita, chain linked volumes (2010) in euro
When: 2004-2020
Where: Current EU members (as of 2021)

Posted in charts EN | Tagged Dot chart, GDP, Histogram, Interactive, Tableau

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