Information visualization
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Dashboards with fifty metrics get ignored while three numbers get acted on
Why do people trust a chart without checking whether both axes start at zero?
A table is often the right visualization when readers need exact values
Edward Tufte argued a chart should erase everything not carrying data and the rule still holds
Small multiples beat one line chart with twelve overlapping series
A red and green palette looks fine to the analyst and vanishes for eight percent of men
A choropleth map of raw counts just redraws the population map
Truncating the y-axis exaggerates small differences and news charts do it anyway
Tableau costs more per seat than a Power BI bundle and the extra buys dashboard freedom
Sankey diagrams mislead when the flows entering a node are not conserved
D3 gives control over every pixel and costs days per chart compared with a charting library
Live-updating incident dashboards cause more page refreshes than decisions
Sparklines were invented for dense financial reporting where a full chart would not fit
A box plot hides whether the distribution underneath is bimodal
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