Category Timeseries

Making Better Figures [Video]

March 30, 2015 · by · in accessibility, Animation, Chart, Colour, colour blindness, Maps, palettes, Presentation, Projection, Timeseries, Video · 1 Comment

Better Figures made a video! https://vimeo.com/123037693 The video offers some tips for making better figures. We cover: A brief history of statistical graphics [02:20] Everybody loves a bad figure [08:10] Some principles [11:35] Making better timeseries (applying those principles) [13:13] Projection distortion [18:00] Better Palettes [18:46] We need to talk about “Rainbow” [23:30] Design, and […]

Better Timeseries

September 20, 2013 · by · in Chart, Colour, Timeseries · 8 Comments

Better Figures was very happy to be invited to the Scott Polar Research Institute, to give a talk on data visualisation to the UK Polar network of early career scientists. The talk leant heavily on the advice from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte. One of the original bits however, was a sequence […]