A Few of My Least Favorite Things – #3
Redesign Your Data I have a real love-hate relationship with these bubble charts, at least as they are commonly seen and used in economic development. OK, really, mostly a hate relationship. That’s not because they are a bad way...
A Few of my (Least) Favorite Things – #2
Redesign Your Data We are living in a world where 3-D has become so boring it’s time to move on to the meta-verse, but our human brains still process statistics best in good old-fashioned 2-D. Excel offers 3-D options for many of their...
A Few of my (Least) Favorite Things #1
Redesign Your Data This is a visualization of a pretty typical economic development data set – employment by industry. Is it hard to read? Do you think it would matter if I enlarged it? Made it in another program? Well, maybe,...
A Gift of Learning
Redesign Your Data I’m a data visualization nerd, and I’ve invested a lot in learning best practices and thinking about how to apply them to economic development situations. Some time ago I created a list of my favorite...