Tag: before-after

After my previous post about Anthropic’s spider chart, several people asked me how I would actually go about fixing it. So here is how – with a single prompt. I...

Anthropic has published an interesting study about labor market impacts of AI: Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence. It is hard to overestimate Anthropic’s contribution...

A fellow data analyst asked a question? What do we do when we need to draw a stacked bar chart that has too many colors? How do we select the...

A radar chart (sometimes called “spider charts”) look cool but are, in fact, pretty lame. So much so that when the data visualization author Stephen Few mentioned them in his...

Being a data visualization consultant, I can’t help looking for dataviz problems in graphs that I see. Even if the graph is good. Even if I know that I would...

From time to time, people ask me for help with non-trivial data visualization tasks. A couple of weeks ago, a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend showed me a set of graphs with the following...

Seaborn is a Python visualization library based on matplotlib. It provides a high-level interface for drawing attractive statistical graphics. Look at this example from the seaborn documentation site >>> import...

Sometimes, when I see a graph, I think “I could draw a better version.” From time to time, I even consider writing a blog post with the “before” and “after”...

Adding legends to a graph is easy. With matplotlib, for example, you simply call plt.legend() and voilà, you have your legends. The fact that any major or minor visualization platform...

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