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Dataviz | Information Design The person behind The Dataviz Bookshelf, The Data Design Manifesto & The Design Matters newsletter series. https://www.datarocks.co.nz
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I have joined the ranks of folks across the PBI modeling globe that have been bitten by the problem of - as of the Feb 2025 update - a " Measures" table in an import or composite model report cannot be opened in #PowerBI Desktop.

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The beats are mysterious and important youtu.be/JRnDYB28bL8?...

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Dear 📊 ##dataViz crowd, help needed. What am I missing?

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Happy Twin Peaks Day to those who celebrate

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Outstanding video from a creator I am subscribed to for many years now. (Or at least ever since I got my first dishwasher). Highly recommended. Also: today I learned I might be part of 3% of people who actually prefer the Subscription feed on Youtube. youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA

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New project: I recreated Moses Harris’ prismatic and compound color wheels from The Natural System of Colours published in the eighteenth century and expanded them to dark versions. Explore: www.c82.net/natural-colors How they were made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=97

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📊 #dataviz #AI New @datavizsociety.bsky.social article just dropped: What Does AI Understand About a Graph? (coauthor: Claude Hiaku) A sort of Turing Test applied to the problem of graph comprehension,but a bit more like a cultural anthropologist meeting a new species. bit.ly/4hHOUeO

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Comparison columns in Tableau! It only takes one calc to shift the bars (and another if you want to color them fancy). Crack it open on Tableau Public or check the blog for the step by step walkthrough. 📊: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... 📝: brittanyrosenau.medium.com/comparison-c...

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Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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📊 #psy6135 #dataviz Today's topic: The Language of Graphs: from Bertin to GoG to ggplot2 How we got from the idea of 'graphs as a visual language' to elegant software for producing them 💻 My slides friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...

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A classic!

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Heartbreaking, but amazing work.

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🚨 New blog post! 🚨 If you want to learn about: 🎨 Monochrome colour palettes 📊 Designing better black & white visualisations 🛠️ Rethinking single-colour chart design Read this ➡️ nrennie.rbind.io/blog/monochr... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #RLadies

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TLDR: if you're making monochrome charts, you need to actively design them that way. You can't just assume that a colour chart will automatically work when printed in black and white. 📊 #DataViz #RStats

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For folks looking for COVID-19 📊, the COVIC archive is a wonderful resource with thousands of COVID-19 data visualizations that appeared on the web. covic-archive.org/index.html

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Re #Dataviz Portfolios, early career folks are mostly concerned with making and populating one, but what do non-early-career folks struggle with re: portfolios? Once you have one, what's next? Maintaining and updating? Updating aesthetics? Remaking it to go from personal to business?

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Got invited to do a talk and I am never keen on 'just' doing a portfolio kind of presentation. So to my female/feminist colleagues in #dataviz: What would you want to learn/hear from me when it comes to my projects, design-process, ideas and/or vision on data illustration? DM is also okay :-)

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