Encore! In May, I taught a workshop at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, NC. In August, I’m returning to give another workshop for the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Division. NTP is dedicated to testing and evaluating substances in the environment.
Data bars are miniature within-cell bar charts. I primarily use them to quickly explore patterns in my dataset. Sometimes I decide to make an actual bar chart of the data later on. Other times, I’m simply using these tiny charts to help my brain spot…
I bet you’ve got better things to do than fiddle with your spreadsheet for hours on end. And why rely on Excel’s default settings when you can easily format your spreadsheet to fit your exact preferences? There are numerous formatting adjustments you can make to…
Let’s pretend you’re graphing age distributions for a given county. You carefully formatted your histogram: you removed the border, lightened the grid lines, wrote a descriptive title and subtitle, selected customized RGB color codes, and called attention to a section of the graph with the saturated action…
I’m teaching a hands-on data visualization workshop at the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC’s annual conference. Bring your laptops!