The Best Articles in Data Visualization

Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.

«There’s no need to rely on hues from all around the color wheel like ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤ for your visualizations. It will look more professional – and therefore more trustworthy – when it only uses a few hues and their neighbors.»

Part of creating a choropleth map is to choose colors for our map. It seems simple.

Decision trees are the fundamental building block of gradient boosting machines and Random Forests(tm), probably the two most popular machine learning models for structured data. Visualizing decision trees is a tremendous aid when learning how these models work and when interpreting models. Unfortunately, current visualization packages are rudimentary and not immediately helpful to the novice. For example, we couldn't find a library that visualizes how decision nodes split up the feature space.

Our World In Data is one of our favorite resources. It’s brought data and visualization to some of the world’s hardest problems and pressing needs – health, food, climate, and agriculture. Hannah…

«we need to talk about sustainability as an opportunity, not a sacrifice»

So you have some information — how are you going to share it with and present it to the rest of the world? There has been a long history of organizing and displaying information without putting too…

Reproducible code demonstrating the evolution of a recent data viz of CONUS snow cover

In this article, Sara Dholakia presents a guide on how to choose just the right type of data visualization, with guidelines and things to keep in mind.

Every year, I pick my favorite data visualization projects, which tend to cover a wide range of purposes but are typically for presentation. Here are my favorites for 2022.

A journey of emotional awareness, where we uncover the power of naming and visualizing your feelings.

An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem.

«But for the most part, official statistics are imperfect but good enough.»

I recently got access to DALL-E. In this blog post, I use DALL-E to recreate some of the world's most iconic album covers. Can we get it right?

Oftentimes what we’re doing isn’t so important as who we’re spending our time with.

Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.

I stumbled upon data visualisation art quite by accident early in 2022, at a time when I was at an interesting crossroads in my life. I’m a neurodivergent woman in my 40s and my life has always been a…

A designer’s perspective on the world’s #1 spreadsheet tool — how to build infographics, dashboards, presentations & more

Machine learning is a powerful form of artificial intelligence that is affecting every industry. Here’s what you need to know about its potential and limitations and how it’s being used.

«Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence that gives computers the ability to learn without explicitly being programmed.»

Another tumultuous year is coming to a close. While volatility can be stress

When it comes to breaking down the top 100 companies of the world, the United States still commands the largest slice of the pie. Throughout the

«With 14 companies of its own in the world’s top 100, China accounted for $4.19 trillion or 13% of the top 100’s total market cap value. That includes two of the top 10 firms by market cap, Tencent and Alibaba.»