If so, keep reading. These proven best practices will help. To keep things short, I’ve limited my suggestions to the two most commonly used data viz devices: pie charts and bar graphs.

Manuel Lima—a celebrated information designer who founded and heads Google’s data visualization team (formed in 2018)— has published Google’s Six Principles for Designing Any Chart, a ...

The two graphs below show the exact same data, but use different scales for the y-axis: On the left, we’ve constrained the y-axis to range from 3.140% to 3.154%.

1. Make Sure Your Data Is Compelling & Strong Enough The first rule of visualization: Everything hangs on the quality and credibility of your data. If you ain’t got the goods then forget it.

Pick a Graph That Displays a Hierarchy in the Data Four categories of graphs are suitable to display hierarchies in data: composition, distribution, relationship and comparison.

Bar charts shorten time to insight, enable straightforward comparisons between different items and data sets, and bring a clean visual representation to your audience. While there are certainly ...

Giorgia Lupi is design director and co-founder of the Accurat design agency, based in Milan and New York City. Her studio contributed the visualization “A Shift in Nuclear Powers” in September.

Types Of Data Visualizations For years, the easiest way to build data visualization was through adding information to an Excel spreadsheet and transforming it into a chart, graph, or table. While ...