This visual breaks pretty much every best practice out there when it comes to effective graph design. Check out this post, where I comment on the design choices and demonstrate what this data has the potential to be.

This is one rule of data visualization that I see broken too often: when it comes to bar charts, the y-axis must begin at zero. Check out this post, where we'll look at a specific example and discuss why.

In this post, I outline the shortcomings of these colorful donuts and look at another way to visualize this data.

Word clouds created a bit of buzz when they first became popular. However, I often find that upon further evaluation they tend to be a letdown—full of fluff without so much informative value. Check out this post for my discussion on why and a word cloud makeover.

I hate pie charts. I mean, really hate them. In this post, I discuss why and show an illustrative makeover.