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Tree map infographics for spend data

Thanks to Flowing Data for linking to another great graphic from the New York Times. This type of graphic falls into the category of tree maps which, along with the bubble chart, are my favourite tools in my data analysts toolkit. The tree map and the bubble chart allow the relationships between multi-dimensional data sets [...]

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The Medium is not the message

I love a good infographic (For those who don’t know, ‘infographic’ is essentially a wanky term for ‘chart’).
Each year infographic tools get better and publishing gets easier. We use Tableau extensively but a large number of tools exist (A couple of years ago, I predicted MS would have bought Tableau by now, but they [...]

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