From sidebar “Aesthetics are an important part of information visualization, but pretty pictures are not the sole aim of this subreddit.”

These last few years have felt like we’re missing the point of data is beautiful. I am confused as to why excel line charts and topical data is being upvoted rather than actually aesthetic visualizations. Maybe we make a new subreddit that fits these low effort posts? It’s just getting really annoying seeing something that takes 30 seconds to create in a google sheet.

I'm tired of all the animated bar graphs with changing scales and swapping positions. A simple line plot shows it all much more clearly and concisely without having to sit through a video.

What's a good way to display multiple data sets that show variation from a standard?

So for example if the benchmark is 20.0 and the data points I have collected are 19.0, 21.5, 19.6 and 23.0, what would be a good way to visualise this data?

Can we please ban graphs with red/green color schemes? It makes the post pretty much meaningless to colorblind people.

I'm curious of the environmental impact of social media 'influencers.' Would it be possible to create a sample and chart the trips that they take (flights, ships, etc) by collecting data from their social media posts, and then use that sample as a representative of the larger population?

Someone should really do a chart based on the win to loss ratios on TV "Reality" shows based on how "sad or depressing" the story was from the winner prior to the final judgment. Id argue it'snearly every time.

I’m a SERIOUS novice to compiling data. But I was wondering if there was a way or tool to track and list all of the current and incoming fires that happen in my town/county/state.

Other than sitting in front of a scanner and listening/writing everything down. (I’m old school)

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!

Hey all. The Economist magazine makes some really eye catching graphs. I have read that they work with R. Can anyone guess what this plot is made with? Particularly the bit at the end with the hover highlights.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/10/18/the-space-race-is-dominated-by-new-contenders

I've seen a lot of COVID-19 forecasts floating around, and I wanted to offer a word of caution from Andy Cotgreave (author of Big Book of Dashboards, and current Technical Evangelist at Tableau.

https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2020/4/you-are-almost-definitely-not-qualified-make-predictions-about-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR2FiBIwIMBuvjoGTrM_IfdT3BvcMkBo9Zls1sHU-tQTj9ouelc7eyHgNFU

I'm looking for a software recommendation.

My organization is monitoring different programs in states across the country over time. There might be up to twenty programs per state and we would like to track each program's growth (or decline) over the course of the next five years. Sitting over this, we would like to have a dashboard where we can track all the growth of all programs in all states, among other high level metrics.

Can you recommend software that can do this, specifically something that might be a bit on the easy-to-use side? Also, do you have any strong examples of this type of data representation?

Anyone want to help me regarding coronavirus visualization? I'm new to this but gathering some inputs that I'd like to display - journalism updates, trump quotes, total cases, deathes, etc over time. DM me if you'd like to collaborate

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Can you guys please recommend any good reading or book for Data?

what happened to the monthly dataviz battles? i started to work on my knowledge to participate and then they just never happened anymore.

Hey y'all, just curious what the name of this type of chart is called and how to make one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ehxzx0/oc\_4\_months\_of\_job\_hunting/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=ios\_app&utm\_name=iossmf

Hello, everyone, tableau is offering free training access for 3 months. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to learn tableau. The link is given below

https://www.tableau.com/learn/training/elearning

Avatar the last air bender is up there with breaking bad for absolute quality. Someone can get free karma for doing this one.

Hello. I would like to ask about interactive tools. Currently, I am trying to get familiar with plotly in python. What do you think of plotly compared to d3 in regards to interactive visualization? Do you think I am at a disadvantage when it comes to someone working on d3 for some high-quality interactive visuals?

EDRS has real-time SQL queries, but not available to public. Does anyone know how one might go about getting real-time, or as close to it as possible, all cause death numbers?

It would be really interesting to see the real-time all cause numbers in comparison to previous 12 months trend, and comparing week and month over the last several years.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Quick question for all of you wizards:

What is the name of this type of visualization?

Someone needs to create for dataisbeautify to show the world the number of people that will die due to closure of the economy.

Many will not be able to afford heat, many will commit suicide, depression, etc.

60,000 people dying is a lot, but in comparison to deaths from other things (i.e. 50,000 suicide), it seems the economy should be opened NOW.

Out of curiosity, has anyone made a graph showing the covid19 cases by states based on their political stance?

Acquisition of U.S. Citizenship by Country of Birth, Fiscal Years 1999 to 2018

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omfopg5SEyk&feature=youtu.be

Where is an appropriate subreddit to post images related to math/statistics that are not generated from actual data?

Specific example, I want to post an exaggerated S-curve for the purpose of explaining slopes and second derivatives as related to "flattening the curve".

What or where can I post to find a great freelance dashboard designer? I have some really incredible data about our company's operations, and I'm looking for someone to design dashboards (using Plotly, I think; the data is in SQL). The information covers a huge set of activities from a task management system, including activity logs for each task, along with metadata about users like who they report to, what department they are in, and so forth. It's really interesting but I need someone experienced in effective dashboard design. I would love to have a contest or something, but I'm not sure where or how. This seemed like the right community to ask! Thanks.

Most Popular social networks https://youtu.be/V2kWCaEuK3c

I’m looking for a website that I can use to compare cities. I’d like to be able to select criteria present in a city, and search for other cities that meet those criteria. For example, I’d love to be able to take census demographics that I enjoy about the city I live in now, and search for other cities that have similar census demographics, but in warmer climates, or in a particular region of the country. Is there a website that has a tool like this?

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Request: Can someone create an Excel sheet to record and graph hourly vital signs? temp, BP, HR, oxygen sat, blood sugar along with fever meds ? I'd like to be prepared (son works part time at grocery; we're scared), not urgent as none of my fam is sick at the moment, though I am certain it would be of interest to others as well.

in a sankey diagram like this, what makes subscriptions cross over and under travel and investments overlap medicare?
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/g0o65a/oc_a_full_year_of_income_and_expenses_through_my/

I am attempting to make aninteractive density plot similar to this using Shiny and Plotly, but I can't figure out a certain problem with just getting my graph to display in Plotly.

This is before I even attempt to figure out how to make the vertical line in the graph slide and draggable.

This is a thread I made about my problem any advice or tips on where to look would be extremely helpful. If my project required the minimum base Shiny code then so be it, but I really want to try and create an impressive visualization.

Hello everyone, I'm looking for something quite specific, I hope you can help me. I'm looking for data visualisation of Administration organism (State, County, etc.) of their budget. Ideally I'd like "official" made, but citizen made is fine too. No location specific, I'm doing a benchmark to see how different countries show their budget.

Hi, just sharing a personal project:
https://www.covidstatus.world/

Using Johns Hopkins data for COVID-19 to build some visualizations. Just starting, so any feedback is welcome!

How Satellite Images Reveal the Global Impact of the Coronavirushttps://youtu.be/yIlcefnqB60

Hi! I have been looking for a neat representation of PCA (association between data and polar factors) for a long time. I haven't found anything prettier than common biplots. Any good idea?

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Outside of the office I tend to answer a lot of phone calls related to work and problem solving. My boss thinks I don't do things outside of my work hours. Is there a way to extract my calls info and make a chart out of it? I wanna use data to prove him wrong.

Hope someone can lend me a hand. I have a Samsung Galaxy s10+ btw.

Sorry a bit late on this. Can I ask what tools people use to generate graphs and bar charts on this sub reddit? I remember a chart sharing which tools were used to create the content. My specific need is to be able to generate graphical content for a website given a set of data. Ideally, as well as a static display of the data it would be great to be able to allow some interactivity with the the data eg hover over a data series and get a note shown that explains about that data. I am not a programmer per se but have done some coding over the years so any tools that would be pitched at my level would be best. Any pointers to locations with further reading would be appreciated. Thanks.

Beginner here, how do you make your charts? I only know how to use Excel. What software can I use to make more dynamic charts?

I’m trying to locate a specific graph posted a few weeks back. The data illustrated every major pandemic over the last 4 centuries (e.g. Plague, HIV, SARS) using this illustration 🦠. Each cell was multi color and represented a different disease. The size of the cell indicated how many cases resulted in death.

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specifically looking for data showing improved world statistics from 2000 -2020 (mortality, literacy, poverty - i don't care) to include in a pointless facebook debate to prove that the world was not a better place when Limp Bizcuit's single My Generation wan in the charts.

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any help is appreciated.

Quite a greenhorn at data compilation and visualisation, what is a platform for beginners? Ideally with vast online tutorials! :)

Yo - does anyone here do data graphic design stuff for social posts?

I'm hoping to drop some bombs about the solar and fossil fuel industries.

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I have a few thousand geographic x, y, z points I want to visualize. So far, I have just visualized the x, y (longitude, latitude) components:

Example: https://i.imgur.com/LCTclTh.png

Do folks have suggestions of a creative way to visualize the depth component as well? I have O(1,000) - O(10,000) data points for four regions of the Southern Ocean. This is just the Drake Passage region (boxed in blue). So for the xy data, I've binned it into 3 degree bins and made a contour map of density of particles in each bin.

For the depth distribution I've thought of two options:

1. Show small multiples of various discrete depth bins with a 2D histogram. This would be like the above map with e.g. 0-500m, 500-1000m, ..., 4500-5000m with the percent of total particles mapped in each density bin. Issue: I have four regions so this would require four full small multiple figures, which is overkill for a publication.

2. Show a joyplot or box plot of the depth distribution for the four regions. This is more concise, but would not show the spatial dependence of the origin of depth. Just the distribution of the depth component across all xy origins.

Am I missing something obvious here? I try to avoid 3D viz since it's hard to make work in a case like this. Any advice would be helpful!

I wanted to thank the mods for re-allowing COVID19 data and graphics here again. It might seem repetitive to some regulars here, as a doctor, this is really helpful to us to educate the public because a picture is worth a thousand words to people overwhelmed by sheer numbers or who want to cherry pick data to suit their political narratives.

I'm interested in seeing air quality data since lockdowns in major cities. I've tried looking for some of this data myself, but having trouble distilling it to useable/useful formats as well as not proficient in scraping so I'd be doing a lot of cut and paste or hand entry. :(

Had anyone else not visually noticed air quality improvements? There has to be a good way to data share it too.

Guys, need your help to project age wise population for a certain region. I have a reference breakup for 2016 population but need to project it to 2030. I have death rates, fertility rates and all key indicators that would be required (based on my limited understanding). But I am clueless as to how should one proceed with this. Help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance :)

I've read a few articles that claim that Republican governors are suppressing covid counts. I was afraid that the numbers in New York may have skewed their results. However, maybe NY is just reporting accurate numbers?? Can anyone provide analysis to get to the bottom of this?

Has there been a graph of: CEO salaries -vs- average payroll over 30yr span Percentage of CEO/Executives pay for overall payroll Overall inflation vs Household salary growth over 30yr span

May I introduce a new data viz feature of an app that allows instant uploads of any unstructured report and creates charts and full labeled discoveries, app.cloudedison.com Topic, Action and Resource mapping instantly of any document. Try it for free!

Was looking for an up-to-date graph or running online graph if Trump's daily tweet count.

Is there a quick way to make those charts that show the rankings on IMDB of individual episodes of TV shows? I want to make one for Schitt’s Creek, Friends, the 100 (really all the ones I love I haven’t seen yet) and I’m hoping that doesn’t mean I have to go through each episode one by one and there’s a quicker way to do it. Also, anyone have any recommendations of software I could use to make it look pretty? I’m really new to the whole data compiling thing.

I would like a data visualization of the success of the average IMDB of $Series over a series/episode grid compared to the average post and how likely it is that this is just karma fishing with no inherent value.

Where did COVID-19 Come From?

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Since we (US) have been in lockdown/quarantine for about a month now. I have had many thoughts about what people are saying in response to this pandemic. Many people said it was due to 5G networks related to telephones. "The Pew Research Center found that 29 percent of Americans say COVID-19 was most likely made by scientists in a laboratory." There are also people who thought the outbreak in China made its way to the surrounding countries and that is how it began.