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.

What’s the purpose of dashboards in 2023?

Once considered fanciful, today data visualisation charts, and changes, our world. But it can misinform as much as it informs

How to shape the narrative with graph manipulation without sacrificing your credibility. The art of tweaking graphs to better support your story.

When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.

«This despair helps my students recognize an apparently banal assignment as a real design situation. It teaches them that data is created, not found; and that creating it well demands humanity, rather than objectivity.»

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.»

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

See 20+ examples of animated infographics and tips from our team of 40+ graphic designers on how to successfully use one in your content.

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

On January 1, 2023, Apple sunsetted (pun intended) the Dark Sky mobile app on iOS. Apple purchased the company behind the popular weather application in early 2020, then announced that it would be…

The world was a complex and volatile place in 2022. In our signature style⁠—combining art, data, and storytelling⁠—we helped millions of people make sens

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…

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.