Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Make It Interactive..................................................................13
Highlighting your best work................................................16
Quick Filters: give the wheel to your users........................16
Actions — Major League filtering........................................18
Hyperlinking and using the power of the web..................20
Good visualization
Home Prices
$4,000K
$3,000K
Price
$2,000K
$1,000K
$0K
0K 1K 2K 3K 4K 5K
Home (sq ft)
Great visualization
60 Years of Unemployment
Unemployment by Decade and Year Highlight Decade:
1940's
---0 ---1 ---2 ---3 ---4 ---5 ---6 ---7 ---8 ---9 1950's
12%
1960's
10% 1970's
1980's
8% 1990's
Unemployment
2000's
6%
4%
2%
0%
8%
Unemployment
6% Average= 5.6%
4%
2%
0% Average= 116K
-1,000K -500K 0K 500K 1,000K Source: Bureau of
Change in Employment from Prior Month Labor Statistics
Howard, Ryan
Fielder, Prince
Pujols, Albert
2008
Sandoval,
Sandoval,
Gonzalez,
Adrian
Pablo
Pablo
2009
2010
11.8
12.0
11.0
11.0
10.6
10.0
9.4
9.1
9.0
9.0
8.4
8.4
8.1
8.1
8.0
8.0
7.7
7.5
7.3
7.3
7.3
7.0
6.7
Sum of RC/27
6.5
6.3
6.1
6.0
5.0
4.0
3.0
2.0
1.0
0.0
2007
2008
2009
2010
2007
2008
2009
2010
2007
2008
2009
2010
2007
2008
2009
2010
2007
2008
2009
2010
2007
2008
2009
2010
2009 9.1
2010 9.4
2009 7.7
2010 8.4
2008 6.3
2009 7.5
2010 7.3
Sandoval, 2007
Pablo
2008
2009 8.1
2010 7.3
3B Sandoval, 2007
Pablo
2008
2009 8.1
2010 7.3
0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0
Sum of RC/27
40%
Percent of Total Users
30%
20%
10%
0%
D.. Duplex
Mi.. Misc
Si.. Single
Tri.. Triplex
Fitting
You can use the Fit options on the toolbar to specify how
each view fits within the window. You can select from the
following options:
• Normal – automatically resizes based on the data in the
view and the size of the window.
• Fit Width – scales the view horizontally to fill the width
of the window. Vertical scroll bars are allowed.
• Fit Height – scales the view vertically to fill the height of
the window. Horizontal scroll bars are allowed.
• Fit Entire View – scales both the width and height to fill
the window. Scroll bars will not be shown; rather all
data will be scaled to fit within the window.
$3,730K
it global to apply to $3M
$3,426K $3,350K
all views.
Price
$2M
$1M
$0M
0K 1K 2K 3K 4K 5K
Home (s q ft)
60 Years of Unemployment
Unemployment by Decade and Year Highlight Decade:
1940's
---0 ---1 ---2 ---3 ---4 ---5 ---6 ---7 ---8 ---9 1950's
12%
1960's
10% 1970's
1980's
8% 1990's
Unemployment
2000's
6%
4%
2%
0%
8%
Unemployment
6% Average= 5.6%
4%
2%
0% Average= 116K
-1,000K -500K 0K 500K 1,000K Source: Bureau of
Change in Employment from Prior Month Labor Statistics
Year of Order
Date Region
2010 Central
East
South
West
$0 $1,000,000
Sales
• Axis tick label: Make sure that the values on the axis are
formatted appropriately (e.g., currency, unnecessary
decimal places, etc.)
2008
2009
2010
Sales Sales
Highlighting hijinks
Although less complex than actions, highlighting can still
be very confusing. Click everything to make sure that your
highlighting happens as you expect it to… and that it actually
happens at all. One thing to be especially careful of when
publishing to the web is that your color legends have
highlighting turned on, otherwise they will just be legends.
Last step
Do you like your viz? After all of this arduous, tedious and
difficult tweaking, you better have a little crush on your viz.
If not, it may be time to break up and start over.