The Process

✚ Choosing Your Charts (The Process #44)

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by Nathan Yau / June 13, 2019 / chooser, The Process

Assuming you have a dataset in hand, how do you decide what visualization method to use? Read More

✚ Missing the Trees for the Forest (The Process #43)

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by Nathan Yau / June 6, 2019 / distribution, summary, The Process, variation

Don't step so far away from the data that you miss the details that provide meaning to the overviews. Read More

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, May 2019 Roundup (The Process #42)

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by Nathan Yau / May 30, 2019 / roundup, The Process

Every month I collect links to visualization tools and resources. Here's the good stuff for May 2019. Read More

✚ Setting Visualization Expectations to Avoid Audience Confusion (The Process #41)

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by Nathan Yau / May 23, 2019 / expectations, The Process

People misinterpret charts all of the time, because they go in with the wrong expectations before they even fully interpret what a chart is about. Read More

✚ Making Comparisons Easier When Presenting Data (The Process #40)

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by Nathan Yau / May 16, 2019 / comparison, The Process

Visualization is all about making comparisons. If you have nothing to compare to, then the chart fails. In this issue I describe some of the ways you can make your charts more comparable. Read More

✚ Line Chart Baselines Do Not Have to Start at Zero (The Process #39)

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by Nathan Yau / May 9, 2019 / baseline, rules, The Process

There was renewed interest in — gasp — truncated axes this week, a never-ending debate about whether starting axes at non-zero is misleading. Read More

✚ Axis Labels, Better Than Defaults (The Process #38)

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by Nathan Yau / May 2, 2019 / axes, context, labels, The Process

In this guide, I look maybe a little too closely at how to adjust axis labels for more readable charts. Read More

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, April 2019 Roundup; Visualize This Reboot

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by Nathan Yau / April 25, 2019 / roundup, The Process

Every month I collect the new tools, resources, and datasets. Here they are for April. Read More

✚ DataCamp noindex (The Process #36)

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by Nathan Yau / April 18, 2019 / DataCamp, harassment, The Process

The welcoming nature of the data community was one of the reasons I switched to Statistics. Let's keep it that way. Read More

✚ Shifting to Responsive Charts, Tools for Mobile (The Process #35)

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by Nathan Yau / April 11, 2019 / mobile, responsive design, The Process

In this issue I go over my somewhat delayed shift towards making charts that work in different screen sizes and the tools that work for me. Read More