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May 29, 2020
Daniel Haight
Anemones and Simplicity

The Paradox of Brilliance

It seems that the amount of intelligence needed to understand an idea is inversely proportional to its brilliance. My first conjecture: great ideas are grokkable, marginal ideas are not. 

Anemones and Simplicity
January 9, 2020
Daniel Haight
Towards Better Visualizations: Part II - How to ...

In this second part of the series, we explore how to be more effective in your visualizations. In this context, we defined effectiveness as a combination of clarity and engagement.

Towards Better Visualizations: Part II - How to be More Effective
October 1, 2019
Daniel Haight
Towards Better Visualizations: Part 1 - The ...

This is part one of a two-part series on building effective visualizations. In this post, we take a shallow dive into evaluating existing visualizations. In the next post, we’ll dive a little deeper as we explore techniques on how to improve them.

Towards Better Visualizations:  Part 1 - The Visual Frontier
April 10, 2019
Visualization
Joey Cherdarchuk
Clever Hans

In visualization we have a vehicle capable of more than just communicating numbers.

Clever Hans
July 6, 2017
Analytics
Daniel Haight
The Value is in the Data (Wrangling)

If you aspire to be a data scientist, you’re really aspiring to be a data wrangler. You see, 80% of your working hours will be spent wrangling the data. That’s on average. On some projects, you will spend more than 100% of your “working” hours with your lasso. I hope you enjoy that sort of thing.

The Value is in the Data (Wrangling)
Joey Cherdarchuk
December 4, 2012
Visualization

Don't Submit

Joey Cherdarchuk
December 4, 2012
Visualization
Don't Submit

I hate the submit button. For visualizations and a lot of other applications it puts a barrier between me and the things I’m looking for.

Joey Cherdarchuk
August 21, 2012
Visualization

Slopegraphs

Joey Cherdarchuk
August 21, 2012
Visualization
Slopegraphs

Over the past few months I've become increasingly fond of Edward Tufte's Slopegraphs for data visualization. They aren't just good for comparing across time, but also across two categories.

Joey Cherdarchuk
August 1, 2012
Visualization

The Pursuit of Better

Joey Cherdarchuk
August 1, 2012
Visualization
The Pursuit of Better

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

2 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
June 23, 2012
Visualization

Too many bars

Joey Cherdarchuk
June 23, 2012
Visualization
Too many bars

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

5 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
June 1, 2012
Visualization

Simple Bars vs Fanciful Circles

Joey Cherdarchuk
June 1, 2012
Visualization
Simple Bars vs Fanciful Circles

Beautiful doesn't necessarily mean accessible and comprehensible. A basic chart remake.

Joey Cherdarchuk
April 24, 2012
Visualization

Payroll and Playoffs

Joey Cherdarchuk
April 24, 2012
Visualization

The NHL playoffs are underway and so some visual analytics are in order. Have a look at the relationship between payroll and Stanley Cups.

Joey Cherdarchuk
March 28, 2012
Visualization

Even small data sets can yield insights

Joey Cherdarchuk
March 28, 2012
Visualization

Recently a small data set was posted on a discussion board I read. 5 columns by 15 rows. This small bit of data yielded an immense number of opinions and visualizations.

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