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In Defence of the Humble Pie Chart
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Data Visualization Aesthetics: Why Information should be Beautiful
Aesthetics in data visualization can be a controversial topic. On the one hand we have the sage advice of Edward Tufte ringing in our ears about the perils of “chart junk”1 that obscures meaning and impedes comprehension. On the other hand there’s people like David McCandless and his popular book/blog Information is Beautiful2 which accepts […] -
Colour in Data Visualization – Part 2: Applications
This post is the conclusion of my two-part look into the use of colour in data visualization. In the first post we covered the prerequisite theory. In this post we will use that theory to effectively select colours in a range of data visualization situations. […] -
Colour in Data Visualization – Part 1: Theory
How to use colour effectively in data visualisations seems to be one of those topics that everyone knows something about, but few seem to know enough. Although I’m probably in the same boat, over the last few years my work has required me to learn a lot more about it. I thought it would be […] -
HCL Colour Space Viewer
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