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Spot the difference flowingdata.com/2025/11/06/p…

Spot the difference

This week is about highlighting differences and visualizing characteristics over the data itself.

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Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2025 Roundup flowingdata.com/2025/10/30/p…

Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2025 Roundup

This is the good stuff for October.

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When a table is better than a graph flowingdata.com/2025/10/02/p…

When a table is better than a graph

When there is data (or lack of it), we like to visualize it. Sometimes though, a straightforward table can be better.

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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Learning Resources – September 2025 Roundup flowingdata.com/2025/09/25/p…

Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Learning Resources – September 2025 Roundup

Here are tools you can use, datasets to poke at, and resources to learn from.

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Avoid worldwide embarrassment from careless chart crimes flowingdata.com/2025/08/14/p…

Careless chart mistakes

Because no one is perfect, even those striving for PhD-level intelligence.

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Visualization tools and resources, July 2025 roundup flowingdata.com/2025/07/31/p…

Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources — July 2025 Roundup

Tools to use, datasets to poke at, resources to learn from. This is the good stuff for the month.

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Staying cautiously pessimistic flowingdata.com/2025/07/24/p…

Visualization and the machine

I am sorry in advance, but I have to talk through something you are probably tired of hearing about: AI. For data visualization.

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Ignoring audience flowingdata.com/2025/07/17/i…

Ignoring audience

Focus on the audience who matters and ignore the rest who only want to see data that validates narrow views.

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Visualization tools, datasets, and learning resources for June flowingdata.com/2025/06/26/p…

Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, June 2025 Roundup

This is the good stuff for June: tools to use, datasets to analyze, and resources to learn from.

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Comparing multiples flowingdata.com/2025/06/12/c…

Comparing multiples

This week we make it easier to compare multiple charts when differences are small but significant.

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The good stuff for May flowingdata.com/2025/05/29/p…

Visualization Tools and Resources, May 2025 Roundup

The good stuff from May: tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from.

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Conflicting points of view over the same data flowingdata.com/2025/05/22/p…

Conflicting points of view over the same data

This week we look at how the same data can easily lead to different conclusions that can all be correct, even when they conflict.

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Step Chart, Enhanced flowingdata.com/2025/05/15/p…

Step Chart, Enhanced

This week we look at the step chart and how to highlight specific patterns in the steps.

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When the data is not what it seems flowingdata.com/2025/05/08/p…

When the data is not what it seems

Look for outside reasons, or confounding factors, for why things show up in the data.

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Finding the Right Charts flowingdata.com/2025/05/01/p…

Finding the Right Charts

Chart selection can be a mechanical process that fits into a simple flow chart, but this limits your possibilities.

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The good stuff from April: Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from. flowingdata.com/2025/04/24/p…

Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – April 2025 Roundup

The good stuff from April: Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from.

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Here is the good stuff for February flowingdata.com/2025/02/27/p…

Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources — February 2025 Roundup

Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from that bubbled up in February.

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Visualization Tools and Resources, January 2025 Roundup flowingdata.com/2025/01/30/v…

Visualization Tools and Resources, January 2025 Roundup

Here are things you can use, poke at, and learn from that bubbled up this past month.

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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, October 2024 Roundup flowingdata.com/2024/10/31/p…

Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, October 2024 Roundup

Here is the good stuff for October.

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Stats are for winners. flowingdata.com/2024/10/17/p…

Stats Are for Losers

This week, I heard that stats are for losers. I had to check it out, because I’ve always thought stats were for winners.

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