When reading a visualization (or any other kind of communication), your reader has a limited amount of brainpower to dedicate to the problem. Some of this brainpower will be dedicated to decoding the visualization; any brainpower that is left may then be used to understand the message (if the reader hasn’t yet given up in frustration).Dashboard Design - Considerations and Best Practices
Using names of billionaires I created their Forbes profile URLs and collected the data I needed using RSelenium and rvest. I’ll be frank. It was not sexy at all. I did a lot of Excel VLOOKUPS, manual inspections and string manipulation to get a workable data set.A Data Driven Guide To Becoming a Consistent Billionaire
While there are an increasing number of good color palettes out there, not all of them are applicable to charts and data visualizations. Our approach to visualization color palettes is to make natural gradients that vary in both hue and brightness. By doing this, our palettes are accessible by people who are color blind, obvious for others, and works with anywhere from one to twelve data series.Finding the Right Color Palettes for Data Visualizations
