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A Better Way to Chart Likert Scale Responses

You want to visualize the results of one survey question so it feels natural to put everything in one chart, but in this case it's likely making the results harder to digest.

A Simple Trick to Make Heatmaps More Useful

Instead of reading through hundreds of individual values, a heatmap allows you to see the structure of the data easily. But there are a few questions that the heat map makes it hard to answer.

A Bubble Chart of the World's Most Addictive Apps

A bubble chart of the 25 biggest apps, and what it costs to fit five variables onto one plot.

An Ordinary Chart That Does Everything Right

An ordinary scatter plot with a trendline, close to what Excel would give you by default, and the storytelling choices that make it land.

Reacting before reading

Interpretation is the hardest part of analysis to teach. Seven things a dip on a chart might actually be before it is a problem worth acting on.

A Slow Look at Redfin's Best Time to Buy Chart

A nice-looking Redfin chart, and the small design choices doing most of the work.

Two Charts, Same Study

Designing for Different Readers

Same study, same numbers, two completely different chart designs. Neither one is wrong, they're just doing different jobs.