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12 ideas to become a competent data visualization thinker
It began with a tweet: Data tweeps: Help! I need to become a competent data viz thinker, well, immediately. Are there "must-read" sources that y'all can suggest? — Lindsey Leininger (@lindsleininger) September 27, 2017 In [...]
A companion post to my NTTS2017 presentation
This post summarizes a few key points in my NTTS2017 effective data visualization for statistical offices
On alternative pizzas, pie charts and datavis pedantry
So our usually calm data visualization corner on Twitter was shaken by this tweet: https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/838720989991223297 quickly followed by this one: https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/838750115796041728 What was all the fuss about? Well, Elijah Meeks summarizes it nicely: https://twitter.com/Elijah_Meeks/status/838877302050082816 So, [...]
10 reasons why you should take Excel dashboards seriously
This post on how to make Excel dashboards was one of the first I published here, and it still is one of the most popular posts. But I actually prefer broader data visualization discussions than Excel tips & tricks. [...]
The drunken speedometer: the most dangerous chart alive
I have a soft spot for bad and seemingly hopeless charts and graphs. All they deserve a second chance, so I try to help them out of the gutter. The other day, I was roaming [...]
The 3 min datavis
I wanted do have something special for my students. And I don't like wasting training time explaining how to make a chart. So I decided to record several dozen videos showing how to make charts [...]
Etiquette for scientists
You are a brilliant scientist and you just made an amazing discovery. You want to announce it to the world. So you prepare a few slides and decide to use that cute font, Comic Sans. [...]
Get off my shoulders, said the giant
Dear Stephen Few I'm writing this assuming that my book Data at Work was one of the targets of your post “Data Visualization Lite”. If that is the case, thank you for spending some of [...]
Bullet charts: an easy way to make them in Excel [Data at Work series]
(All the Excel charts in my book are available for download, but I promised to write tutorials for a few of them. This is the first one.) Name: Bullet charts What it is used for: to [...]
Suddenly, the colorful lollipop turns into a dangerous match
It surprised me. And it shouldn't. You see, there is nothing wrong in using data for the sole purpose of creating aesthetically pleasing visual objects. On the other hand, if you want to make sense of the [...]
Write your own data visualization stylebook
A long time ago I tweeted about the need for everyone in the data visualization community to write a book. I wasn't joking: if you only tweet or write a few posts, you can't possibly [...]
The cave
Stephen Few and Alberto Cairo (Alberto is the host, that's why he doesn't say much) And now let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living [...]
The Excel Charts Shop
Great charts you can use
“This is the Excel charting book that I would have liked to have written. Jorge has applied the best practices of data visualization to charting in Excel.” – Jon Peltier
Better together: Book + Online Dashboard Tutorials
Jorge Camões
Hi. My name is Jorge Camoes and I’ll be your host around here. excelcharts.com is not your regular Excel tips site. You can find here a blog where we discuss data visualization issues and where I post free tutorials from time to time, and a members area where you can find more structured data visualization courses. To know more about excelcharts.com please visit the About page.
What they say
In addition to a great deal of data visualization experience, Jorge is one of the world’s great experts in Excel; he’s one of those guys who can make Excel do things that were never intended or imagined and certainly never directly supported by its creators.
Jorge Camoes has a mission. He wants to help the world make sense of the ocean of data that we are beginning to swim in. Jorge wants you to understand and make sense of data (…) I’m going to email the URL of his blog to colleagues who work with me in the Cabinet Office. Wouldn’t it be great if could help present our data in some of the exciting formats he examines on his site.
When I think Visualization and Excel there are two names that come into my mind: Jorge Camoes and Jon Peltier. If you want to do serious data visualization with Excel, stop here, they are the names.
