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 moreWhat’s the idea? Currently, most of the chart titles used across the ONS are purely statistical, signposting the data within…
Read more“Who wants to be a millionaire” is the name of a popular ITV quiz show being reintroduced to our screens…
Read moreConferences are a great way to learn and view the wider field of your profession. Often in data visualisation, you…
Read moreThe 2017 Family Spending data was released today. For the past three years the bulletin has been accompanied by an…
Read moreYou may have seen in June last year we asked people to draw the rest of the line, for several charts,…
Read moreNew flow of funds data was published this morning. Alongside the main release are four interactive products which each look…
Read moreA stacked bar chart does much the same job as a regular or clustered bar chart in that it enables…
Read moreIn 2010 the then-Prime Minister David Cameron launched the Measuring National Well-being (MNW) programme to “start measuring our progress as…
Read moreThe principles and guidelines from part1 showed what data best suited a pie chart, solutions for labelling and using colour….
Read moreA blog on pie charts? surely everyone knows how to use them. Just googling “pie charts” and hitting the “images tab” in a browser gives us a fair indication… people in general don’t, and the results are worryingly bad.
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