This visualization shows the most valuable sports teams in 2017 and how much their value has changed since the previous year. This was a potential assignment from How Much that wasn’t selected for publication, but I love the visual pun of ball speed lines to show value change, so wanted to share here.
There is a lot of research and writing on how to design effective data visualizations. Some researchers measure the speed and accuracy with which people read values from a visualization and exhort us to use bar charts. Others will point to psychological principles such as gestalt laws or preattentive processing 1 as ways of tricking […]
It seems to have become a truism in data visualization that pie charts are to be avoided. A Google search for “avoid pie charts” returns 1.4 million results. At the top of the list are articles with titles ranging from the extreme (Pie Charts are the Worst) to the fanatical (Death to Pie Charts). This […]
I’ve been writing up my thoughts on how to effectively use colour in data visualizations. As part of this process I created a little tool for viewing the HCL colour space and various slices through it. If none of this makes any sense, then just wait for my upcoming blog posts.
