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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
November 23, 2016

Visualization's Twisted Path

Joey Cherdarchuk
November 23, 2016
Visualization's Twisted Path

Visualization is not a straight path from vision to reality. It is full of twists and turns, rabbit trails and road blocks, foul-ups and failures. Let's walk through one visualization's twisted path.

6 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
November 8, 2016
Visualization

Visualizing Distributions

Joey Cherdarchuk
November 8, 2016
Visualization
Visualizing Distributions

Let's have a look at the many different methods for displaying distributions. We'll take one data set and display its distribution 16 different ways.

8 Comments
Daniel Haight
August 26, 2016
Analytics

Own the Adoption

Daniel Haight
August 26, 2016
Analytics
Own the Adoption

How many times has this happened to you: You get to the end of a gruelling analytics project and the decision maker doesn't listen?

6 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
August 19, 2016
Visualization

Data Looks Better Naked: Maps Edition

Joey Cherdarchuk
August 19, 2016
Visualization
Data Looks Better Naked: Maps Edition

In this new installment of our Data Looks Better Naked series, we take on maps. More specifically, the choropleth map.

21 Comments
Daniel Haight
August 5, 2016
Analytics

House of Cards

Daniel Haight
August 5, 2016
Analytics
House of Cards

An analytics project is really three projects: a change management project stacked on top of a software development project stacked on top of a research project. So, how does one prevent the whole thing from collapsing under its own weight?

Comment
Joey Cherdarchuk
July 21, 2015
Visualization

Make the Grade

Joey Cherdarchuk
July 21, 2015
Visualization
Make the Grade

Our entry into the  Apps for Alberta competition takes a look at high school grades across the province.

Maciej Bukczynski
April 14, 2015
Visualization

Radar: More Evil Than Pie?

Maciej Bukczynski
April 14, 2015
Visualization
Radar: More Evil Than Pie?

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.

9 Comments
Daniel Haight
March 31, 2015
Analytics

Pluck the Low-Hanging Fruit

Daniel Haight
March 31, 2015
Analytics
Pluck the Low-Hanging Fruit

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?

2 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
December 22, 2014
Visualization

When Small is More

Joey Cherdarchuk
December 22, 2014
Visualization
When Small is More

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

3 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
September 26, 2014
Visualization, Popular

Salvaging the Pie

Joey Cherdarchuk
September 26, 2014
Visualization, Popular
Salvaging the Pie

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

11 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
May 8, 2014
Visualization, Popular, Analytics

Breathing City

Joey Cherdarchuk
May 8, 2014
Visualization, Popular, Analytics
Breathing City

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.

21 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
March 27, 2014
Visualization, Popular

Clear Off the Table

Joey Cherdarchuk
March 27, 2014
Visualization, Popular
Clear Off the Table

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

15 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
March 16, 2014
Visualization

The Uniform Distribution

Joey Cherdarchuk
March 16, 2014
Visualization
The Uniform Distribution

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

2 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
August 20, 2013
Visualization, Popular

Data looks better naked

Joey Cherdarchuk
August 20, 2013
Visualization, Popular
Data looks better naked

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

7 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
August 13, 2013
Visualization

A Simple Tool

Joey Cherdarchuk
August 13, 2013
Visualization
A Simple Tool

The mortgage calculators we've looked at are terrible. So we look to simplify the process in our new tool.

Joey Cherdarchuk
June 4, 2013
Visualization

Bubbles, Bricks and Tukey's Tics

Joey Cherdarchuk
June 4, 2013
Visualization
Bubbles, Bricks and Tukey's Tics

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

6 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
May 9, 2013
Visualization, Analytics

Interactive NHL Visualization

Joey Cherdarchuk
May 9, 2013
Visualization, Analytics
Interactive NHL Visualization

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.

2 Comments
Joey Cherdarchuk
April 29, 2013
Visualization

Exceltron Annual Report (or Pretty Counts)

Joey Cherdarchuk
April 29, 2013
Visualization
Exceltron Annual Report (or Pretty Counts)

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.

1 Comment
Joey Cherdarchuk
March 15, 2013
Visualization, Analytics

Cursory Dashboard Principles

Joey Cherdarchuk
March 15, 2013
Visualization, Analytics

A few lines presenting some cursory dashboard design principles.

1 Comment
Joey Cherdarchuk
January 15, 2013
Visualization

Diverging Stacked Bars

Joey Cherdarchuk
January 15, 2013
Visualization
Diverging Stacked Bars

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

6 Comments
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