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Topic: Visuaization Design

The Visualization Design category focuses on how we represent data: bars, lines, dots, maps, colours, scales, and visual composition. Here, we discuss graphical choices, legibility, perception, and suggested practices for transforming data into clear visual messages.

A collection of 5 posts

Redesigning the RASI
Topic: Visuaization Design

Redesigning the RASI

I decided to take a break and spend an hour remaking the charts (right side of the image). The entire page is a quick draft in Excel (also to show that in-house work doesn't have to be... like that).

· Jorge Camões

Data visualization and creativity
Topic: Visuaization Design

Data visualization and creativity

Where it is argued that creativity in data visualization is not just about an aesthetic outcome.

· Jorge Camões

The problem with bar charts
Topic: Visuaization Design

The problem with bar charts

Clarifying what we want to communicate with the data makes all the difference when deciding on the right chart type.

· Jorge Camões

Imagem de cabeçalho ilustrativa de um post: Gráfico de pontos mostrando o peso das despesas em restaurantes e hotéis em países europeus e como variaram entre 1999 e 2020.
Topic: Visuaization Design

Dumbbell plot: effective and elegant

The dumbbell plot is an effective, efficient, flexible, and elegant chart, four qualities that are difficult to find in bar charts.

· Jorge Camões

Imagem de cabeçalho ilustrativa de um post: Gráfico de linhas com 438 séries, ultrapassando o máximo que o Excel permite
Topic: Visuaization Design

Number of series in Excel line charts

Qual o máximo número de séries num gráfico? Leia sobre uma combinação de boas práticas de visualização de dados com a sua aplicação em Excel.

· Jorge Camões