Neil Oliver

With my limited experience in creating data visualizations prior to the start of this course, color has been the tool that I have most often not given enough consideration to. While I have used it to denote a value, or more often a difference in grouping or variable; this would…

Neil Oliver

I appreciate the language and tone used throughout Healey’s introductory chapter from ‘Data Visualization for Social Science’. Each discussion topic is well defined and supported with references while not hindering the reader by the use of overtly technical language. The separation of aesthetic (bad taste), substantive (bad data) and…

Sankey Diagram

Sankey diagrams are a specific type of flow diagram, in which the width of the arrows is shown proportionally to the flow quantity. example of a Sankey Diagram on Average US Household SpendingHistory Created in 1898 by Captain Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey, who used this type of diagram to…