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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2018
Chart makeover - Choosing meaningful colors
When choosing colors, it's important to focus on what the colors *mean* to the audience, rather than the values themselves. In this short video, I remake a popular viral marketing chart, changing the colors to make them more meaningful.
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I was wrong about when to use step charts
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In one of my recent workshops, a sharp participant pointed out a problem with the guidelines that I recommend for when to use step charts (a.k.a. "stepped line charts"). In this short video, I explain the problem and show the revised guidelines that I'll be using in my Practical Charts course from now on. Want to make sure that you're notified of future videos, articles, books, etc.? Join my ...
Why I don't use Marimekko charts (and what I use instead)
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Marimekko charts are a less common chart type for a reason: They require a lot of cognitive effort to read and can make certain types of insights hard to spot. More importantly, other, easier-to-read chart types can virtually always be used to communicate the same insights. Want to be the first to know about future videos and articles? Join my email list to get one to three emails per month to ...
How many slices can you put in a pie chart?
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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗶𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁? Two? Three? Six? Opinions vary on this question, and my answer in this short video might surprise you (could a 30-slice pie chart actually work?). Links mentioned in this video: My Practical Charts On Demand course (use coupon code save20-45 to get 20% off): www.practicalreporting.com/pcod Article about why I think pie charts can be the best choice: n...
Fixing a chart of email subscriber counts (step-by-step chart makeover)
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A step-by-step redesign of a chart from a popular email marketing application's dashboard, highlighting how to make quantitative and time scales easier to read. To learn more about the Practical Charts On Demand course, visit www.practicalreporting.com/pcod . Use the coupon code save20-44 before Sep1 2024 to get 20% off!
How I turned this OK chart into a great chart (step-by-step process)
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A step-by-step process of redesigning an OK chart to make it easier to read and to make its key messages much more clear.
Is it OK to use smoothed/curvy lines in line charts?
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Are "smoothed" line charts OK? Or do they misrepresent the data? I'm not as concerned about smoothed line charts as some others, but I generally avoid using them myself. Why? Watch the video to learn about the pros and cons of smoothed line charts. The "spurious correlations" site that I mention in the video: www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Choosing a chart type is trickier than you think - Enrico Bertini and Nick Desbarats
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A conversation between data visualization researcher and professor Enrico Bertini and data visualization educator Nick Desbarats, in which they discuss: - Why traditional "chart chooser" diagrams are unreliable and, in many cases, unhelpful - Why both the nature of the data AND the purpose of the chart must be considered when choosing a chart type - Examples of more reliable and helpful chart-t...
"What makes one chart better than another?"- Nick Desbarats' talk at Outlier 2023 Talk
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A talk delivered online by Nick Desbarats at the Outlier Conference www.outlierconf.com/ in May 2023. In this talk, Nick attempts to clarify why people so often disagree on what makes one chart "better" than another, and reveals the definition that he uses to determine whether a chart is "good."
Alberto Cairo and Nick Desbarats discuss their respective upcoming books
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Data visualization educators Alberto Cairo and Nick Desbarats chat about their respective books, "The Art of Insight" and "Practical Charts," both of which will be published on November 15th, 2023. Discussion topics included: - The reasons why Alberto and Nick decided to write their respective books - The hardest parts of writing each book - What Alberto and Nick learned about data visualizatio...
Practical Charts Course Preview
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A short preview of Nick Desbarats' "Practical Charts" data visualization fundamentals course for those who may be considering taking it. Course and registration details can be found at www.practicalreporting.com/pc-course Video sections: 0:00 What's in this video? 0:36 What is the Practical Charts course? Who should take it? 3:11 Why take Practical Charts? What will you learn? 7:13 What makes P...
Map of Data Visualization (Guided Tour)
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A guided tour of Nick Desbarats' Map of Data Visualization, which can be found online at www.mapofdatavisualization.com . Please comment on the map in LinkedIn or Twitter using the hashtag #mapofdataviz !
What, exactly, makes one chart "better" than another?
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When people disagree on whether one chart design is better or worse than another, they often have quite different assumptions about what “better” actually *means* when it comes to charts. Depending on the person, “better” could variously mean more precise, more creative, more familiar, faster to visually process, more inspiring, more neutral, more versatile, more memorable, or any one of severa...
Why a dashboard on its own won’t improve performance (Nick Desbarats interviewing Louise Watson)
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A short interview with performance measurement expert Louise Watson ( adurastrategy.com/ ) on why a dashboard on its own won't improve organizational performance.
How to read a box plot (a.k.a. a box-and-whisker plot) - Nick Desbarats
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How to read a box plot (a.k.a. a box-and-whisker plot) - Nick Desbarats
Practical Charts Course - Introductory Section
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Practical Charts Course - Introductory Section
Stop trying to create general purpose charts (because they don't exist)
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Stop trying to create general purpose charts (because they don't exist)
Status monitoring vs. performance monitoring dashboards
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Status monitoring vs. performance monitoring dashboards
Your explanation is just like strawberry - so easy to grasp and very delicious! Thank you very very much!
😂 Thanks, @user-eco2023!
I never thought the irregularity of data points was necessary for using a step chart. The persistence of a value from one point to the next is the necessary requirement. The data point is in a sense distributed over the horizontal line segment. In the second chart, showing the average of hourly spot prices for each day over a span of several days, obviously a regular line chart is used. This is where I like to use markers, because markers help to drive home that the point has a discrete horizontal location, and is not distributed over a horizontal distance.
Perfect Video. The only video one need
finally an explanation that I can at least grasp
Very informative
Amazing video, really helped me out alot!
Best video on Box plot, I found so far. It is extremely helpful for me.
Thank you, Nick! I always gain valuable insights and inspiration from your content. I have a question: Could you share the font and color code (#) you typically use for the markdown notes in your graphs, including the ones in this video?
I work with Nick and would be happy to answer your question about the purple callout text. The typeface is called "Segoe Print" and the color code is #7030A0. Take care!
@@bryanpierce616 many thanks
Super helpful! Thank you
very useful, thank you and great explanation/
Nick this is great. Such a clear process to follow and very powerful to see the visual changes as you tell the story of why.
Thanks, Stacey! Delighted that you found the video to be of interest!
Bro is LEGEND
great job! thank you!
Glad you found the video to be useful!
The analyticspress website is not working?
precise and concise
Great Video!
Thanks!
Thank you for this !!! :)
No problem 😊
Thank U <3
Oh my God thank you so much I finally understand it
thanks
Mr., I have got a question. In which tool did you design the Frequency Heatmap? It was very stylish and clear to interpret data.
It was actually created in Excel, using conditional formatting (and making the numbers in the cells invisible, see support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/hide-or-display-cell-values-c94b3493-7762-4a53-8461-fb5cd9f05c33 )
@@practicalreportingthis will only work if the value we want to represents are inside the table. What if we wanted to see the frequency of that value and represent that in the heatmap? in this vid that would be for example 20 people with >120k salary. Our data would have 20 different names with >120k salary. To represent that 20 people we need a table of countif salary>120k and we need to do this for each salary band. Then we do the conditional formatting.. CMIIW. Good vid!!!
@marior6662 To make a distribution heatmap, yes, each cell has to contain (or be associated with) the number (or %) of values that fall within that cell. That value then determines the color of that cell. The example that I showed was created in Excel using conditional formatting, and the numbers in the cells were made invisible using this trick: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/hide-or-display-cell-values-c94b3493-7762-4a53-8461-fb5cd9f05c33#:~:text=Hide%20cell%20values&text=On%20the%20Home%20tab%2C%20click,Type%20%3B%3B%3B%20(three%20semicolons).
Would November 15th be World DataViz Day? 😅Looking forward to reading the 2 new books!
Thank you! It's such a pleasure! The DnD metaphor is just the best! 🥰
LOL! Thanks!
aswome
Thanks!
Underrated, pretty good explanantion
As someone who's studying to become a psychologist this was very useful thank you!
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It was very helpful and easy to understand, thanks for the hard work
Useless. to hard get better pay 2 win go play roblox you noob
Please how will you report - 1.113 skewness
Well, skewness in general (not just 1.113) will appear in a box plot as the "whisker" and/or "box" sections at one end of the box and whisker shape being shorter than the box and whisker shapes at the other end. In a distribution heatmap, skewness appears as colored cells at one extremity of a column of cells being darker than cells at the other extremity. Kind of hard to explain without visual aids...
Okay
Excellent sir.
something abouut u says you r canadian
I am!
@@practicalreporting sorry.....i am watching too much of "how i met your mother"
Très intéressant! I hope for another interview soon !
Your explanations were exceptionally clear.
Amazing video! Thank you!
This is veery useful ty~
Super video, nice content package. Thanks for skipping advertising fireworks
Thanks, Raymond. I appreciate it when marketing materials get straight to the point and skip the superlatives and buzzwords, so I try to do the same in my own materials.
this explanation helped me, thank youuuu!!!
Great video 👍
really nice, thank you.
very helpful
amazing
Nice video, but how do you locate extreme values?
I didn't cover it in the video, but there's a widely used convention for determining what's an outlier and showing them in a box plot. This article describes it: www.real-statistics.com/excel-capabilities/creating-box-plot-outliers-manually/
Thank you for articulating what I have seen as I explore this field, nice to know its not just me 🙂
good video nick
Loved this breakdown! You're bringing a lot of clarity to things that have been confusing and bugging me for a long time.
Thank you so much for this project! It's wonderful!
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Nick you are a legend! I am the director of data for a mental wellness startup for K-12 schools and love your content and am planning on overhauling our data viz products to your logic. Thank you
Delighted that you found the video to be useful, Anthony!
it's really effective video for beginners. Make things so clear