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How to Spot Misleading Charts, a Checklist

Tableau

Alyssa Jenson November 14, 2023 - 6:59pm Sue Kraemer Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau Charts are all around us. When viewing and creating charts, it’s vital that we gain the ability to critically explore and discern the integrity of the information and conclusions shown in charts. Chart Design.

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#datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Gemma Correll – I Love Charts. Note from Beth: I just knew that I was going to start obsessing about charts and graphs after my Excel spreadsheet obsessions started. What better way than in Excel. Step 1: Which Chart is Best? If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart.

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How Do I Say It With Charts?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: Juice Lab Chart Chooser. Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The six steps: Step 1: Which Chart is Best? Step 6: Annotate.

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Apple’s charts set the M1 Ultra up for an RTX 3090 fight it could never win

The Verge

When Apple introduced the M1 Ultra — the company’s most powerful in-house processor yet and the crown jewel of its brand new Mac Studio — it did so with charts boasting that the Ultra capable of beating out Intel’s best processor or Nvidia’s RTX 3090 GPU all on its own. But that’s because Apple’s chart is, for lack of a better term, cropped.

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Reporting for Grantmakers: Charts vs. Lists to Make Sense of Your Data

sgEngage

Charts and lists are two of the most common formats for grant reporting, but they have different benefits when you are trying to make sense of your grantmaking data. Using Charts in Your Grant Reporting. Charts make it easy to make sense of a lot of data by creating context. The “What is This Report Telling Me?”

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How Grok 3 compares to ChatGPT, DeepSeek and other AI rivals

Mashable Tech

Tweet may have been deleted xAI left out a key Grok 3 comparison Screenshots of Grok 3 Reasoning models outperforming OpenAI's o3 mini and o1, DeepSeek's R1, and Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking have gone viral for looking like the most advanced reasoning model. But OpenAI said, "Not so fast."

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How Nonprofits Can Tell Powerful Stories Through Data Visualization 

Allegiance Group

Designing Charts and Color to Communicate Quickly How do you simplify a text- and data-heavy scorecard while still accurately and quickly conveying the complex information policy-makers seek? Our goal for the new AARP LTSS Scorecard website was to design a chart anyone could look at and understand immediately how a state was doing.

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