It seems that the amount of intelligence needed to understand an idea is inversely proportional to its brilliance. My first conjecture: great ideas are grokkable, marginal ideas are not.
In this second part of the series, we explore how to be more effective in your visualizations. In this context, we defined effectiveness as a combination of clarity and engagement.
This is part one of a two-part series on building effective visualizations. In this post, we take a shallow dive into evaluating existing visualizations. In the next post, we’ll dive a little deeper as we explore techniques on how to improve them.
If you aspire to be a data scientist, you’re really aspiring to be a data wrangler. You see, 80% of your working hours will be spent wrangling the data. That’s on average. On some projects, you will spend more than 100% of your “working” hours with your lasso. I hope you enjoy that sort of thing.
Using physical objects to display data and create visualizations may seem counterintuitive, but doing so can be incredibly effective and engaging. We’ve put together a list of the Top 5 physical visualizations we’ve come across.
Have you ever wondered if there was a better way to visualize your data? To make it more engaging, more visually impressive, or clearer to your audience? We’ve put together a list of the Top 5 maps we’ve come across.
A few years ago we worked with the Alberta Government on a tool that would make Fish Consumption Advisories more accessible to the general public. And after working its way through the government’s approvals process that tool is finally here.
If you’ve tried to visualize your data with a map, you know how time-consuming it can be. It shouldn’t take so long or be so difficult, so we built MapInSeconds.com, which takes your data and generates a map - in seconds.