Chart Combinations: Visualizing Data in Calendars
For a long time now I’ve been meaning to explore the combining of charts or graph markers together. I would like to investigate more into what I would describe as “chart fusions” or “chimera charts”,...
View ArticleChart Combinations: Overlaying Extra Data Onto Timelines
In a previous post, I looked at combining a calendar with other forms of data visualization to explore the possibilities available. I want to continue this process, so in this post, I have decided to...
View ArticleFurther Exploration #8 – Triangular Plots
It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these posts (the last one being on Area Graph Variations), so I wanted to get back into looking at different chart types. In this post, I will be exploring the...
View Article[VIDEO] Chatting with Finn Fitzsimons on His Projects
I decided to experiment with a new format because I had recently got in touch with a guy who’s work looks very intriguing. Instead of communicating completely by e-mail, I thought it would be easier to...
View Article[VIDEO] Misleading Data Visualisation and Best Charting Practices
I was invited to give a talk at a UX / UI Design conference CIEMNA STRONA #4: Stranger Things, which took place on 21st March in Kraków, Poland. This conference was organised by ITberries – a group...
View ArticleFurther Exploration #9: Isochrone Maps (Travel Time Maps)
How long will it take me by car to get out of the city? Where’s a good part of town to move to that is a reasonable travel time to work? What parts of the country are well-connected and won’t take a...
View ArticleFurther Exploration #10: Proportional Area Chart Variations
Originally, I started this post exploring and writing about combining Proportional Area Charts with other forms of data visualisation. However, I found that many of the charts I included in the...
View ArticleFurther Exploration #11: Bar/Column Chart Variations
In this Further Exploration post, we will look through some variations of the classic Bar/Column Chart. Previously, I had already produced a significant number of reference pages on other Bar/Column...
View ArticleFurther Exploration #12: 3D Treemap Cubes
Originally, I was planning to write a Further Exploration post on just Treemap variations. I thought there would only be a small, handle-full of charts that I would need to cover. But man, I was...
View ArticleVR Data Visualization: Useful For Multidimensional Data?
Continuing on at looking into the claims being made about virtual reality (VR) data visualization, we will now look at the second most commonly made claim: VR data visualization is great for...
View ArticleFurther Exploration #13: 3D Treemap Spheres and Cylinders
So in the previous post in the series, I covered Treemap visualisations that use a 3D cube shape to displays hierarchal data. However, there are still a number of different 3D Treemap visualisations...
View ArticleFurther Exploration #14: 3D Treemaps That Use Extrusion
This is the third post looking into 3D Treemaps. This time we’ll be exploring 3D Treemaps that use extrusion to communicate an additional variable. If you’re familiar with CAD or any 3D drawing...
View ArticleChart Selection Guide
On the site’s Instagram, there’s a series of posts that each list with icons, the chart types recommended based on what you can communicate or analyse with them. In total, there were 15 posts created,...
View ArticleSankey Diagrams, Parallel Sets & Alluvial Diagrams… What’s the Difference?
For ages, the naming between Sankey Diagrams, Parallel Sets, and Alluvial Diagrams have been used interchangeably. Are these visualisations that different from one another and is it a bad thing that...
View ArticleNew Format for The Bar Chart Reference Page
To demonstrate the potential new content structure being implemented on an existing visualisation reference page, here’s an example provided for Bar Charts: Bar Chart Other names: Bar Graph, Bar Plot...
View ArticleJapanese Contributions to Data Visualisation
Many of us in the western data visualisation community may think of data visualisation as a field that primarily emerged out of the West. If you were to name key historical practitioners of data...
View ArticleAcademic Research Done on Alluvial Diagrams
For this website, I’ve started to compile a list of academic papers and any related articles that study or use a particular type of visualisation. I thought it would be a good idea to share what I...
View ArticleAcademic Research Done on Arc Diagrams
Here you can find a list of all the research found on the Arc Diagram. An Arc Diagram is a visualisation that displays nodes placed along a single line for a one-dimensional axis and connects the...
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View ArticleHow Useful is ChatGPT for Data Visualisation Work?
So I finally got around to looking into ChatGPT and while I may be a month or so behind, it has allowed me to see what others are saying on this topic before I write about it. There’s been a lot of...
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