Charts with two different y-axis are often used in the reporting of statistics. They can display two or more related…
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In March I was fortunate enough to travel with a colleague to Chicago to participate in the annual NICAR (National…
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Three years ago, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) decided to start an experiment.
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The 2017 Family Spending data was released today. For the past three years the bulletin has been accompanied by an…
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New flow of funds data was published this morning. Alongside the main release are four interactive products which each look…
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A stacked bar chart does much the same job as a regular or clustered bar chart in that it enables…
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The principles and guidelines from part1 showed what data best suited a pie chart, solutions for labelling and using colour….
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I recently wrote a blog post about axes on line charts starting at non-zero values. However, bar charts are a…
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At the risk of ruffling a few data vis feathers … no? But there are often occasions when it should….
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