amCharts, a charting library for creating interactive web charts

amCharts is a new JavaScript library for creating charts on the web. It handles many types of charts and it’s somewhat reminiscent of D3.js. Its most exciting feature is a live editor, which removes the grunt work related to your typical JavaScript charting library and enables you to design, change and export your chart to… Continue reading amCharts, a charting library for creating interactive web charts

How to build quick and free charts

Back in July 2013, the guys from released their Chartbuilder tool to the rest of the world. Quartz is a very successful online magazine. For their charting needs they use Chartbuilder, a web tool they built to streamline their cumbersome Excel-based process and convert it to a three step copy+paste, copy+paste, publish workflow. Author David Yanofksy:… Continue reading How to build quick and free charts

A primer on Visual Encoding

Michael Dubakov has this great introduction to visual encoding, along with samples and easy to remember rules, so you don’t mess up the next time you’re trying to visualize data.

Who touched base in my thought shower? | Steven Poole

Who touched base in my thought shower is a book by Steven Poole (who writes the on Reading it, I was often reminded of the Bill Lumbergh character in Office Space: Only after working in very politicized organizations, I realized that there were people who constantly spoke like that. All day long. Saying things like: Sunset… Continue reading Who touched base in my thought shower? | Steven Poole