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Blog postNo small number of you took on our small multiples challenge this month, with 74 entries making it in by the deadline. As always, you covered a variety of topics and aesthetic approaches, from the simplicity of lines or bars in monochrome, to choropleth maps, to 650 pie charts, in two distinct formations. (We did say “never say never” to forty-five pie charts last year, but Neil is really pushing the boundaries of “never.”)
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Blog postBreaking news! We could not be more excited to announce that two of the authors of Elevate the Debate, Jon Schwabish and Bridget Lowell, will be joining us on Thursday, February 13 from 10-11am ET, for our very first live “let’s chat” session in the SWD community! Jon and Bridget will be answering your questions about the book, communications, the Urban Institute, data visualization, effective presentations, or anything else
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Blog postOne of our early challenges (almost exactly two years ago!) focused on bar charts, and the results were both impressive and diverse. Submissions included standard horizontal and vertical bars, but also overlapping, diverging, and stacked variations. This proves how fundamental bar charts really are. They form the basis for many other boutique charts like waterfall, bullet, lollipop, and Gantt charts, to name a few. Just one
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Blog postLast year, I wrote a post highlighting the importance of taking baby steps: incremental, achievable improvements to existing work that we can employ when faced with real-world constraints on our journey to becoming better data storytellers.
Today, I’m going to take things a literal baby step further, considering what we can learn from a toddler teaching himself to walk—and how that applies to designing data that engages and informs.
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Blog postIf you work with data, you should read (and own!) this book. Conversational in tone and packed with relatable examples, author Ben Jones shares with us the pitfalls that he has fallen into or seen others trip over when working with data in an effort to spare those reading from making the same mistakes.
I had the pleasure of chatting with Ben about his new book and related topics, which we recorded and I invite you to listen
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Blog postToday’s post is about a common challenge: when one data series is so large relative to the others that a single scale makes it nearly impossible to see any details. Consider the following line graph. It displays state and local revenue by transportation mode, which I created using data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics 2018 Report.
What ca
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Blog postDecember’s challenge was a straightforward one: create and share an infographic that draws the reader in and inspires action. We were thrilled to see 28 people rise to the challenge in our budding SWD community! Our goal with moving the monthly SWDchallenge to the community site is to have a place for people to practice in a low-risk environment and
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Blog postHappy new year! To celebrate the onset of 2020, we’ve decided to focus the SWD challenge on a visual that historically hasn’t received much attention from us—but can come in quite handy in the right circumstance—the small multiple chart. Selecting a suitable graph depends on many things: the audience, you, what you’re trying to communicate, and even the underlying dataset. Let’s explore the dataset factor.
When you have a sin
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Blog post2019 has been a tremendous year for us at storytelling with data. The SWD team grew to six with the awesome additions of Mike and Alex (who join Elizabeth, Jody, Randy, and me). My second book, Let’s Practice!, was published. We built and beta-launched the SWD community, a place where people all over the world can come together to practice, give and
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Blog postI’ve had a few great discussions lately centered around communicating data to executives. The conversations have been about how much context to include, when and how to simplify complex information, and strategies for influencing those in positions of power. There isn’t a simple solution to any of this, but it got me thinking about how I’ve struggled with this scenario as well. In my former life as an analyst, I found execs to generally be intimidating and strapped for time, which made me cla
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Blog postThe holiday season is here, and I can’t think of a better gift for the analytically-minded people in your life than my new book, SWD: Let’s Practice!
Whether you’re a leader or manager interested in improving data communication skills across your team or organization, or an individual interested in influencing your peers to care about and spend time to tell effective data stories: give the gift of Let’s Practice! this holida
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Blog postForty-eight people illustrated alternatives to a secondary y-axis in November as part of the first #SWDchallenge taking place in our exciting (and still-in-beta) SWD community! The team and I are thrilled, both with the level of participation in this new venue and in particular about the robust dialogue it makes possible. Now that community members can provide context on their own submissions and add commentary to others’ cr
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Blog postInfographic. This is shorthand for “information graphic.” It is loaded term—perhaps it is because it promises a lot that it frequently under-delivers. I used to be posed the question frequently (and still am on occasion): What’s your view on infographics? Let me start with that, and then I’ll get into the details of our challenge this month.
People mean a variety of things when they say “infographic,” a term that surged in po
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Blog postI tend to be surprised when someone compliments me after a workshop about my energy level or presentation style. I do not define myself as a public speaker—quite the opposite! I was the kid in school who presented my book report last, secretly hoping I could run out the clock and save myself the humiliation of nervously stuttering through my words. I
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Blog postLike many others, I was in Las Vegas last week for the annual Tableau Conference. This was my second time attending, though it was a very different experience. In 2009, the conference was comprised of a few hundred people in Seattle. This year there were rumored to be twenty thousand attendees, who took over the Mandalay Bay, filled a stadium, and roamed the halls en masse bearing conference lanyards with a contagious enthusiasm for all things data.
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Blog postI’m excited today to unveil something new; I invite you to check out the freshly redesigned storytellingwithdata.com.
Yes, this is a departure from how things have been. Our landing page is no longer the blog. As a bit of history, I started the SWD blog nearly 10 years ago. The impetus was to share knowledge—I had learned and was learning things about communicating with data that I wanted others to be able to benefit from, t
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Blog postToday’s quick post is an example of an incremental improvement to an existing graph that makes it easier for the audience to read. When practicing being a better communicator with data at work, it’s easy to become consumed by the desire for perfection and talk ourselves into thinking it’s an all-or-nothing approach. Rather, the opposite is true: incremental improvements are achievable baby steps we can take to become better data communicators.
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Blog postUPDATE: Five lucky participants this month will received signed copies of storytelling with data: Let's Practice! Recipients will be chosen at random, so all you need to do is participate for your chance to win!
This month, we’re taking it back to the basics—bar charts and line graphs—but with a twist. We’re going to use bars and lines together.
When we use bars and lines in a single visual, it’s common practice to utilize a
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Blog postThe October #SWDchallenge was taken directly from the pages of my new book, storytelling with data: Let’s Practice!—which is where the solution I’ll share with you here hails from as well.
As a reminder, the challenge was this:
Exercise 2.1 | Knaflic, Cole. Storytelling With Data: Let’s Practic
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Blog postIt’s publication day!
I am thrilled to share storytelling with data: Let’s Practice! with you. And I can’t wait to hear what you think.
Some books were released from the warehouse early, so many who preordered it have already received their copy. I love seeing the social media posts where people share their excitement. I very much hope this book will become a well-used and widely-shared resource for those wanting to hone skil
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