Sandeep's Tech and Design Blog

Color Brewer is a great website for experimenting and learning about different considerations for designing color schemes for maps. This information is useful for other visualizations like tables, areas charts also. The three type of data sets you can work with are Sequential ordered data like population density Diverging, e.g population by age band Qualitative which means discrete values like Ethinicity Color Brewer

Below is a great data story telling visualization. It was the winner of the Kantar Information is Beautiful award Data Storytelling using a Chord Diagram

We can use a variable width bar chart to visualize two qualitative variables. This is a type of a Mosaic Plot

Instead of a single donut chart or a circular status meter gauge you can use a radial bar chart or pie gauge to display your chart in a more compact form Radial Bar Chart

A well designed color scale can help the user make better sense of their data. chroma.js helps with generating color scales that do a better transition for colors Mastering Multi-hued Color Scales with Chroma.js

I saw this wonderful visualization in the Time Magazine that breakouts how $10,000 in income taxes is spent by the US government. This visualization is very easy to understand and does a great job of breaking out hierarchies from an Agency such as the US military down to a more specific line item such as Nuclear Weapons. Also note the font weighting based on the number value.

A Cartogram is a geometric distortion of a thematic map using a variable such as population See an animation of cartogram as it transitions from a map to a population cartogram of the world here . Cartogram Wikipedia

We are typically used to seeing satellite imagery with a top down view. Planet.com's satellite now image the earth daily and are also taking oblique views. See these amazing photos in this blog Earths Wonders with oblique views