As people who read my newsletter or attend Chart Chat know, I was one of the volunteers who contributed to The Carbon Almanac. I also subscribe to the Carbon Almanac daily newsletter (it’s excellent). Here’s what came in the other day. I used to travel a lot to give public and private workshops. Then the [...]
A big thanks to Josh Wilson for encouraging me to write about this and an extra big thanks to Jonathan Drummey for doing the heavy lifting on making the AND approach work. A downloadable dashboard with all the examples can be found at the end of this post. Overview While cutting / filtering a question [...]
The Chart Chat hosts discuss the tiny -- and not so tiny -- design decisions that go into crafting effective data visualizations. https://youtu.be/3qa94Yxt8Ks
The Chart Chat hosts speak with guests Seth Godin and Jasper Croome about creating the charts for The Carbon Almanac. https://youtu.be/Kz_EFINGXXY
Amanda Makulec interviews Steve, Jeff, and Andy as they reflect on The Big Book of Dashboards, five years later. https://youtu.be/kVh7I6gFB_c
A look behind the scenes of the making of Joss Fong's amazing Pandemic Polarization video for Vox.com. https://youtu.be/RhglcxOp9Xo
Different approaches to making over a Veronoi treemap, some disturbingly similar charts from Viktor Orban and Joe Biden, thouhts on Iron Viz, and reflections on Robert Kosara's 2022 Outlier presentation. https://youtu.be/03_VLfY_aFI
A retrospective of some of our favorite visualizations and tools from 2021 and a discussion of the New York Times Covid "Spiral" chart that went viral. https://youtu.be/xchgcYNTs98
Our discussion with James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti. James and Oliver share how they developed some of the striking illustrations for Atlas of the Invisible. https://youtu.be/YwgqWaV5lZw
So many wonderful things from 2021. In this post I share my favorite chart, channel, chat, and tool. My favorite chart: If cows were a country I love this McKinsey gem from Jason Forrest, Gabrielle Merite, and Gergo Varga. I know, it violates so-called best practices. The bars are 3D (they look like smoke-filled containers) [...]
