Sat, Dec 15 2018

As part of this week's Makeover Monday I spent some time working through the dataset in order to critically evaluate its quality and whether I was happy publishing the information I was visualising. It would be easy to work through this example and…

David Napoli Iteration and analytic skepticism are critical components of an effective analytics workflow. This excellent post covers the positive value of these (and more) approaches.

12 Dec 2018 Colours is a big part of what makes up graphics and making colours accessible is important. We're used to thinking of colours in terms of red, green and blue. Add these colours together and you get white. We can describe colours using…

David Napoli Accessibility in #dataviz is an important consideration that should always be a part of the design process. This is a great post to inform such a component of that process.

How a lot of little things make an Olympic gold medalist Even a low-key evening at home can mean handing over a trove of personal information to high-tech companies Which cities have the most drawing power among college grads? Small metros lose out…

David Napoli The first of many (I'm sure) collections of wonderful visual storytelling works

What's better than making charts? Making them animated, of course! While animation isn't always (ok, rarely) necessary, it can help tell a story static charts can't. Recently there has been a lot of discussion in Canada related to equalization.

David Napoli Animation is a great use case for displaying uncertainty. Great walk-through post on how to animate #dataviz in R

FlowingData – Nathan Yau – Dec 14, 3:37 AM

As I watched Google's CEO Sundar Pichai field questions from the House Judiciary Committee it was hard not to feel like there was a big gap in how the internet works and how members of Congress think it works. Many suggested the gap was related to…

David Napoli Intriguing animated #dataviz, but my first reaction is 'Compared to what?' — how does this distribution compare to, say, the general Congress age-eligible population distribution over that same length of time?

The Tableau Fringe Festival is an online conference where members of the Tableau community can gather to share their knowledge with their peers. If you miss the presentations live, don't fret! They will be posted to the Fringe Festival's YouTube…

David Napoli Data fields can be the bane of one's existence in SQL environments, is handled with aplomb in the deck accompanying this post

“Commercial health plans have been battling a perfect storm of rising costs, payment reforms and consolidation, which has distracted them from focusing on improving overall customer satisfaction in the sector compared with other…

David Napoli Uplifting individuals' health care experience literacy, while fostering health equity across our communities, will create positive and lasting impacts