This is an opinionated essay about good and bad practices in data visualization. Examples and explanations are below. The Scripts/ directory contains .Rmd files that generate the graphics shown below.

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

I'd be curious to see your calendar with all your commits. Ping me on Twitter (@IonicaBizau). 😄 Until then, here's my calendar: Then, run git-stats --help and see what the CLI tool can do. $ ...

SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - When it comes to access and satisfaction with digital government services, Singapore remains largely divided. The city-state ranks highly overall in this aspect, but ...

A map shows the distribution of the slave population in the Southern states of the United States, based on the 1860 census. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division As the 2016 election ...

Learn how to make everything from basic line graphs to racing bar charts — all interactive and easily animated — with the echarts4r R package. While I’m mostly settled on ggplot2 for static plots, I’m ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The most sinister feature on a chart is often an innocent-looking asterisk. Pointing the reader to an innocuous ...

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...