Dueling with axis: the problems with dual axis charts
Charts with two different y-axis are often used in the reporting of statistics. They can display two or more related…
Read more Say what you see – the way we write chart titles is changing
What’s the idea? Currently, most of the chart titles used across the ONS are purely statistical, signposting the data within…
Read moreWho wants to be a millionaire?
“Who wants to be a millionaire” is the name of a popular ITV quiz show being reintroduced to our screens…
Read moreWhat’s French for data visualisation?
Conferences are a great way to learn and view the wider field of your profession. Often in data visualisation, you…
Read moreHow to customise an embedded interactive
The 2017 Family Spending data was released today. For the past three years the bulletin has been accompanied by an…
Read moreReusable visualisation
You may have seen in June last year we asked people to draw the rest of the line, for several charts,…
Read moreAre you a user of flow of fund data? What interactive features are helpful in your work?
New flow of funds data was published this morning. Alongside the main release are four interactive products which each look…
Read moreStacking the bars in your favour!
A stacked bar chart does much the same job as a regular or clustered bar chart in that it enables…
Read moreReinventing the Wheel
In 2010 the then-Prime Minister David Cameron launched the Measuring National Well-being (MNW) programme to “start measuring our progress as…
Read moreThe humble pie chart: part2
The principles and guidelines from part1 showed what data best suited a pie chart, solutions for labelling and using colour….
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