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Two Y-Axes may be Appropriate!

Posted on February 3, 2022 by richardbrath

Many visualization people are against dual-axis charts. There are research papers that recommend against, websites that recommend against, and some tools don’t support it. Hadley Wickham, the author of the popular R visualization package ggplot2, does not support dual axes … Continue reading →

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Generating stories about data with visualization

Posted on February 28, 2019 by richardbrath

Early in my career, I’d create data visualizations and without fail, my manager would ask: “So, what’s the story here?” In data visualization the objective isn’t the visualization – it’s the insight gained from the visualization. Visualizations don’t announce their … Continue reading →

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Equal Area Cartograms and Multivariate Labels

Posted on October 15, 2015 by richardbrath

There has been recent discussion on equal area cartograms (aka tile maps), for example, NPR Hexagon Maps. But why are they colored symmetric shapes, for example these equal area cartograms from UK publications are squares, hexes and circles: And what other … Continue reading →

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