I came across this topic in a recent LinkedIn post by investigative journalist Daniel Drepper. An international research network investigated the spread of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) to unveil the scale of pollution. This group of chemicals are linked to various deseases such as cancer and infertility. As a...
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Waffle charts in R
Displaying proportional data, i.e., subsets of data that contribute to a whole, can be done in various ways. However, two particularly suitable types of visualisations are isotypes and waffle charts. By making use of isotypes (international system of typographic picture education), one automatically switches from a continuous representation of data...
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Apple Music Library
Recently, I was wondering about which are the songs I listen to most often on Apple Music. Sure, Apple Music can show you the “Top 25 Most Played” songs. However, it didn’t provide me with the instant overview I wanted to have. And it’s not made for conditional filtering. So,...
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Global CoViD-19 dashboard.
In the beginning of February I designed an informative and unbiased dashboard to track and display CoViD-19 cases. I used the database from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, as this is the main data source when monitoring and comparing case numbers between countries...
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Complex Superstore.
A feature recently introduced in Tableau is animations. While you might think that this is rather a gimmick than truly adding value to your visualisations, please, have a look at this dashboard built from Tableau’s Superstore dataset. I believe that animations can add a lot of value to many visualisations....
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