Back in July we published our newsletter on How to Make Spectacular Infographics, and it became an instant favorite among our colleagues and customers. Then in October, Quirk’s e-newsletter published a version of the article, and in just three months it became one of their most-viewed articles of 2014! It is good to know that…
Every day I get a digest of new posts from R-Bloggers, a community of 555+ bloggers who are devoted to using R and sharing what they learn with others. Even though you can’t learn how to use R by reading these posts, once you’ve jumped into the world of R with an in-depth tutorial or…
It used to be that online surveys were dismissed as a form of polling because only a fraction of the U.S. population had access to the Internet. That is no longer the case, and I was surprised by the latest numbers showing just how extensive Internet access has become. Almost nine out of ten (87%)…
When we published our July 2014 newsletter on How to Make Spectacular Infographics, we spent some time looking for examples of poorly done infographics. Ultimately we decided to focus only on the positive “what-to-do” for infographics instead of the negative “what-not-to-do,” so we set those examples aside. Well, along comes the latest news magazine from…
There’s nothing worse than having your research be a pile of numbers with no obvious story. Or maybe there is. What if every random set of numbers told a story? Or, worse yet, what if our brains could find a story in every random set of numbers, even if a story is not there? There…