HelpMeViz
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Helping people with everyday data visualizations [email protected]
Joined November 2013
Download more than 500 color palettes from @edithwyoung's book, Color Scheme, in CMYK, RGB, and HEX codes. Then, listen to the podcast episode!
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Learn more about Edith Young's most recent book and download an Excel file with all of the colors from the book.
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I was curious, so I updated the famous NYT Yield Curve in @msexcel (using quarterly data). Here's how I did it and why--with a downloadable Excel file to boot! |
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See how to update the famous New York Times' 3D yield curve in Microsoft Excel--downloadable file included.
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How do you get people to get away from the same old graphs time and time again? Maybe show them different alternatives! |
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How do you get people to get away from the same old graphs time and time again? Maybe show them different alternatives!
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I built a color contrast checker in @msexcel. It's a multi-step process and enables you to do color accessibility checks for multiple color pairs quickly. See how I built it and download it for yourself. |
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Create a custom color contrast checker in Microsoft Excel by converting HEX codes to RGB and then calculating luminance ratios.
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Some thoughts about creating data visualizations with outliers. |
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Learn how to visualize data values that are so much larger (or smaller) than the rest of the values in our data.
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Dual axis charts are confusing, hard to read, and can be easily manipulated to suggest correlations when none exist. Here are some things to consider. |
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Back to school this week? Are you a K-12 teacher or instructor? Read this post and fill out the linked Google Form for your chance to win five FREE Match It data visualization card games! |
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Enter a drawing to win five free sets of the Match It data visualization card game.
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My @UWMadison (& @IRP_UW) mentor and friend Robert (Bob) Haveman passed away last week. Bob was a major influence in my life and I'll miss him. I've written a short memorial to him on my site. |
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A memorial to University of Wisconsin professor Robert Haveman.
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What are Senators Saying About the Uvalde, Texas School Shooting? A new analysis using Twitter data. |
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Using tweets on May 24 and May 25, 2022, I explore what all 100 US Senators said in the hours after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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Need even more hockey data? Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how I collected, analyzed, and visualized data on @NHL goalie height and weight (plus other stuff). |
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Here’s a run-down of the data and tools I used to examine changes in NHL goalie height and weight in a recent blog post about Wayne Gretzky and Alexander Ovechkin.
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🏒🏒I had a lot of fun with this post on @NHL data that looks at goalie height & weight during Wayne Gretzky's and @ovi8's careers. Hopefully, I did @JoeBpXp, @Laughlin18, @JunksRadio, & @granthpaulsen proud. |
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Comparing individual athletes across eras is basically impossible but I examine trends in goalie height and weight over the past 50 years.
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Do data visualization awards separate the data from the design? New blog post on some reservations about #dataviz awards. |
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Do data visualization awards incorrectly separate the data from the visual? Read more about whether data visualization awards should exist at all.
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What (free!) #dataviz blogs, newsletters, places to practice, examples, and tools do I use? Check out this annotated list. (with s/o to @AnnKEmery, @flowingdata, @pbump, @storywithdata, @_cingraham, and many more). |
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Learn more about the free data visualization blogs, newsletters, tools, and more in this educational blog post from PolicyViz.
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Do you like to use diverging color palettes in your #dataviz? Make sure you're using them correctly and are labeling the midpoint. Some thoughts in a much too long post. |
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When should a diverging color palette be used and how can it be used well? Learn more about using diverging palettes in your data visualizations.
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What are the top and best #dataviz tools? Here's a slightly longer round-up than you might have been looking for. |
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Check out this list of the best data visualization tools from coding languages to dashboards to design to drag-and-drop.
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What I learned from judging a high school debate competition about being a better presenter. | When it comes to presentations, consider quality over quantity
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When it comes to being a great presenter, emphasize quality over quantity. This post will show you how.
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Make a @pbump-style tile grid map with slope charts in @msexcel! VLOOKUP + IF + line charts + scatterplot + error bars = awesomeness. |
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Learn how to build a tile grid map with slope charts in each state using line charts in Microsoft Excel.
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Learn how to wrap and align long labels in #Excel in this short blog post and video. |
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Learn how to wrap your Excel graph labels on two lines AND align them to the left or right using this little trick.
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