How many times has this happened to you: You get to the end of a gruelling analytics project. You’ve tortured the data until it confessed. You’ve[...]

We've explored improving our bar charts, data tables, and pie charts – all with the maxim: remove to improve. In this new installment of our Data[...]

This is the third part of a series of articles about effective analytics implementation. The first part “The Five Faces of Analytics” explores the[...]

Have you met the pie chart’s evil cousin: the radar chart. It may not be as ubiquitous as the pie, but it can be more nefarious.

You’ve assembled a team and they’re ready to transform your organization into a data-driven decision-making juggernaut. But where should they start? How do you coordinate this team so they’ll actually be effective?

Don’t be afraid to make your charts smaller to communicate a bigger, more complete message.

The next instalment in our Data Looks Better Naked series takes on the dreaded pie chart.

A look at the many many steps involved in creating the Breathing City animation of Manhattan's flow of people at work and at home.

The first animation in our Data Looks Better Naked series reworked a bar chart. Now we show you how to improve a data table.

How do jersey numbers stack up across the major sports leagues in the 2013-14 season?

Rather than dressing our data up, we should be stripping it down. A look at how to remove to improve.

A look at some of the different methods for displaying quantitative differences geo-spatially.

Interactivity can provide whole new perspectives, facilitate more comparisons, and encourage exploration and discovery. See what stories are revealed in our new interactive NHL visualization.

People highly value style, even to their own detriment. That means we need to value style but execute without causing detriment. We need to find a way to ensure that we not only deliver data in a meaningful way but also seek to deliver it in a compelling/engaging style.

A few lines presenting some cursory dashboard design principles.

We take a new and difficult to interpret infographic and reimagine it using an old but underused graphic form.

We take a look at an interactive by Andy Kirk, breaking down what makes it effective and how it could be further improved.

Let's take a shot at one of Stats Canada's bars. A redesign of some bar charts.