In the Subtleties of Color series Robert Simmon provides an insightful and pragmatic overview to the issue of color in data visualizations. Throughout the articles Simmon presents a number of practical heuristics to approach the selection of color palates for data visualizations along with an arsenal of tools to facilitate…
In Chapter 1, Drucker (2014), outlines the work of Anton Stankoski's Visual Presentation of Invisible Process: How to Illustrate Invisible Process in Graphic Design (1967) when discussing the movement of the universal principles of design that started to emerge in the late nineteenth century.First a little about Anton Stankowski…
In Look at Data: What Makes Bad Figures Bad before digging into the detail Healy introduces the reader to the Good Chart concept. Specifically Healy outlines that "a really good or really graph cannot be boiled down to a list of simple rules", this discussion is similar to that presented…
OverviewHistograms are a powerful visualization tool, but are often confused with bar charts and as we will see below many of the bad examples of histograms come from people trying to hack a histogram out of a bar chart. Histograms are generally used for continuous data sets, where the goal…