Agreed until it removed the numbers in y-axis. I want to see the scale, minimum, and maximum points in evenly spaced lines, whether logarithmic or linear space is used. This way, these details slightly disappear, or become harder to interpret.
The original source with blog post: <a href="http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked/" rel="nofollow">http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked/</a>
For every chart you could ever want with a very easy-to-use API, highcharts (<a href="http://www.highcharts.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.highcharts.com/</a>) is your best friend. Free for personal use, inexpensive for commercial license. Highcharts will let you show as much or as little as you want. It's funny the author chose calorie per food portion for the example, I'm actually developing a web app that helps plan diets and I did exactly the same thing - remove labels, special effects, legends, etc. The result is magnificent, it really helps with both design and the usefulness of your data.
That's just following Edward Tufte's maxim to minimize chart junk.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk</a><p>Any of you on HN that aren't familiar with "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" should give it a read (and the rest of his books).
They could have used horizontal bars instead of vertical. It takes up much less space and easier to place the labels. This GIF shows a similar animation, but with a 90 degree rotation and a little more information.<p><a href="http://blog.bissantz.com/images/2008/01/tod_der_businessgrafiken_v2.gif" rel="nofollow">http://blog.bissantz.com/images/2008/01/tod_der_businessgraf...</a><p>I wonder why they add the table grid at the end. A grid could have been useful if there were a lot of columns, but certainly not in this case.<p>This is a similar idea I was working on
<a href="http://vpj.svbtle.com/variable-length-underlining-to-help-see-data-in-a-glance" rel="nofollow">http://vpj.svbtle.com/variable-length-underlining-to-help-se...</a>
Anybody has good resources (preferably free) on creating online visualizations. Not links to the d3.js documentation but good tutorials creating visualizations you often use on the internet. Like creating your own cool dashboard and stuff like that.
Good analysis here: <a href="http://betterposters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/link-roundup-for-september-2013.html" rel="nofollow">http://betterposters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/link-roundup-for...</a><p>If you don't have the y-axis, then a) there's no point in having it as a graph and b) there's the possibility for manipulative display.
This is kind of neat from a graphical design perspective, but it doesn't actually relate minimalistic chart design to more informative analytics in any meaningful manner. A concise, well-written blog post would do much more (than a short, hasty animation) to inform people.
Does anyone have any examples of great analytics dashboards(of any kind)? I've always been a bit unimpressed with most of them. Making the base presentation simple and clean while still allowing powerful filtering can be tricky.
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