11/28/2018
Chart Chat Dwell – Quantity 1
Thanks to everybody that joined our first Chart Chat dwell webinar.
If you weren’t capable of be part of us for our first episode of Chart Chat, then check out the video on YouTube. You can even download Steve’s slides here and download Jeff’s slides here.
Recap
After transient introductions, Steve mentioned shade and the usage of BANs. Steve mentioned “Lonely Numbers” as mentioned within the new e book, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling.
Determine 1 — Factfulness by Hans Rosling.
He loved the e book a lot, he’s learn it twice!
Steve additionally added BANs to the Churn dashboard from Chapter 24. This up to date dashboard is available for download here.
Jeff mentioned some examples of “Evaluating Particular person Efficiency with Friends” from Chapter 3 of The Large Guide of Dashboards. This dashboard can also be available for download here.
Steve mentioned “visualization we shouldn’t like, however do” and confirmed Jeff’s Name Dropping visualization and his redesign with the “enjoyable eliminated”.
Steve additionally confirmed a beautifully-designed well being care visualization by Katie McCurdy from Pictal Health.
Determine 2 — Affected person historical past dashboard by Katie McCurdy.
Jeff closed the webinar with a dialogue about “The Screaming Cat” and mentioned numerous weblog posts associated to radar charts, dual-metric donut charts, and the varied responses from inside the information visualization neighborhood.
Use radar charts to compare dimensions over several metrics by Jonathan Trajkovic
Dual-Metric Donut Chart Tutorial by Toan Hoang
Radial Bar Chart Tutorial by Toan Hoang
Jeff mentioned how these tutorials could be helpful in real-world circumstances, although they is probably not finest practices in different circumstances.
The spotlight of this part was Jeff telling the story of the well-known Florence Nightingale Rose Chart, the way it was tremendously efficient in delivering an important message on the time. Jeff additionally took on the daunting activity of redesigning this very well-known visualization.
Notice from Steve: Jeff’s redesign is terrific.
Further References
Better than Jitter Plot by Steve Wexler
In the pursuit of diversity in data visualization. Jittering data to access details by Danieal Zvinca
Speaking of Graphics (2006), An Essay on Graphicacy in Science, Technology and Business by Paul J. Lewi, Chapter 5, Florence Nightingale and Polar Area Diagrams
Florence Nightingale’s Hockey Stick, The Real Message of her Rose Diagram, by Hugh Small
Subsequent Installment
Make sure you register here for the next installment of Chart Chat on January eighth, 2019 at 11am (EST).
We hope you discover this data helpful.
Jeff and Steve
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