data visualization

When creating dashboards, reports, or infographics, you often use other elements besides charts and tables. Individual numerical values are often presented as text (with a...

In this post, we continue to discuss the visualisation of nested hierarchical data. In my previous blog, I showed how hierarchical data can be presented in a two-dimensional space...

In the previous PS blog “Trees that grow out of tables”, Janusz Wachnicki described how a good understanding of the humble crosstab can help us utilise classification trees more...

The series plot is a type o linear or layered plot most often used to represent changes in time. The plot may represent size for a primary variable category or statistics for a...

Data visualisation helps present in an attractive way information that could be difficult to interpret in the form of a table. Undoubtedly, for many managers, the phrase ‘time is...

A common task analysts are often faced with is to establish whether there are any relationships between variables and, if there is a, what is the nature of the relationship.

You may not know this but this year is the 217th birthday of the humble pie chart. Its first known, and purposeful, application was the visualisation of the geographical...

The dashboard is a type of panel board, a control panel, or instrument board.

When it comes to charts ‘less’ is not necessarily better and ‘more’ can often lead to more functional data visualisation.