How often do you get data that needs to be charted or graphed only to find out some of the data’s missing? We see it all the time. However, just because it’s missing, doesn’t mean you can ignore it. You need to know how to make it consistent, how to deal with it if it [...]
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Our lives are made up almost exclusively of relationships and that includes data. In fact, it’s hard to think of examples of data that doesn’t involve a relationship. Customers (hopefully) have many Orders. Companies have multiple employees. People (hopefully) have multiple friends, who also have multiple friends, and may even share some of each others [...] Continuing our series on preparing data for analysis & visualization, we’ve just released the next video on concatenation and extraction. The ability to break data apart and put it back together in new ways is essential to preparing data. By storing data at the lowest sensible level, it can be used separately or combined with [...] Data visualization and analysis are powerful tools for discovering and communicating stories held in your data. However, before most of today’s data visualization tools can be used effectively, the data must be cleaned, organized and prepared. Over the next 4 videos, I’ll be discussing how to prepare your data to be visualized. The first step in [...] Does this stuff really work? Ask that question to people in the visualization space and you’ll likely get a lot of great stories about an event or meeting or personal encounter where one visualization approach or another radically improved an outcome. That’s great, but where’s the solid research? Over the last 6 months I’ve gone [...] Some people would definitely think the process of creating a visual is some form of magic requiring some ability to conjure something from nothing. The myth of left brain/right brain reinforces the false notion that creativity is something that only belongs to a special, magical few. The reality is that, like magic, there is a science to [...] What do you do? I love getting that question, but it’s often just as interesting to hear others describe what it is they think I do. Some people think it’s about helping people speak to large groups or designing presentations. Some think it’s about the news graphics and charts that can be found in [...] Tom Crawford Hi everybody, and welcome to the new Visualization Workshops site and blog. My hope with this blog is to cover all things related to improving your ability to solve problems and sell ideas with pictures. (Thanks to Dan Roam for the great way of breaking it down). I’ll cover tools, techniques, research, [...] |
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