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Professional chart looker-atter. Author of "The Big Picture" and co-author of "The Big Book of Dashboards." James Jamerson disciple.
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Thank you for the kind words.
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These are all so good.
"Good" may not be the right word. I'd much prefer fewer choices here.
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And please forward the link.
I'd like to get a few hundred responses by Friday.
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What Andy said.
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2) **Chart Chat (In Person!)** A top-rated session three years in a row, I look forward to sparring with my fellow book authors Jeffrey Shaffer, @acotgreave.bsky.social , and @abmakulec.bsky.social. Lots of great sessions. See
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Better link:
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I encourage you to ask @acotgreave.bsky.social and Jeffrey Shaffer about this (particularly Jeff, who I don't think is on BlueSky).
In my limited experiences, you need to know what "good" looks like to get decent results.
That said, give it a data set and ask it to do EDA. It can be remarkable.
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Oooh, this is gonna to be fun!
A deadly of dashboards? A deluge? An enigma? A collision?
I think "murder" is the best one yet, but the crows may have something to say about that.
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I think the analog to a pie chart is a stacked bar chart. I call it a "cubist" pie chart.
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YIKES!
I'll be sharing an example of that in the book.
And you know how much I admire your integrity about these things. Asd for the person who gave you that advice...
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The Climate Stripes is the other one I've been looking at.
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What are your thoughts on WhatsApp? This is how I communicate with people outside of the US.
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I suspect George Santayana would be nodding his head in painful agreement.
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I expect to be at TC25, and you should try to get autographs from Andy and Jeff as well. I'm guess there are maybe 50 copies with all three signatures.
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It comes with a Trump-signed Les Paul knock-off guitar. You've never seen such a good guitar and book combination. Believe me.
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Who said it would be easy?
Maybe try this (which works for 3D pie charts, too):
"Let me show you a few ways to present the data. Which of these allow us to answer the questions we have more easily?"
It's rarely the dashboard with the multi-colored 3D pie chart.
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Debates and disagreements in data viz is a good think. It’s why we created chartchat.live.
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Thanks for weighing in.
I responded (twice) to this on LinkedIn.
And I agree with the emotional component.
But in terms of encoding, there are really only three ways as "highlight" and "alert" are just special cases of categorical.
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There's a big difference between "chart junk" and a "junky chart."
Sometimes the stuff labeled "chart junk" aids in the enjoyment and understanding of a chart. That so-called "extra ink" can be helpful
But when you use elements that confuse or obfuscate, well then, you've built a junky chart.
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Delighted to hear that, thank you.
If folks are interested, you can access the Chart Chat website here and register for our next get-together (and watch previous episodes).
chartchat.live
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I much prefer the small multiples.
I'm a professional chart-looker-atter and even with animation find CSPs difficult.
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That's one of my favorite pick-up lines.
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In this past week I’ve seen a rash of folks on FB stating they’ve left X and joined Bluesky.
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Is the lead singer named Smith?
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Hmm... I agreed with everything you said until "too narrow an audience." I've seen lots of dashboards fail because they try to serve too many people that have very different needs.
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@chezvoila.com I appreciate your support of me and so many others on this and other platforms. You do such good work and promote others.