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Koen Van den Eeckhout
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📊 Turning complex data into powerful visual stories! Author of 'Powerful Charts'. Ex-physicist. He/him 🏳️‍🌈
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Day 4 of exploring alternative chart types for the same dataset: a heatmap! ✅ Probably one of the most compact ways to show the data. ✅ Great compromise between precision (showing the data values) and clarity (visualizing the big patterns). (1/4) #dataviz

Comparison between a line chart (above) and a heatmap (below) for the same data. The charts show the evolution of four types of car between 2014 and 2024 in Belgium: gasoline, diesel, hybrid and electric. Diesel is big but shrinking, electric is small but rising.
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⚡ Want to be even more compact? Just leave out the data values, and rely purely on the colors! If accuracy is less important, this is the most space-efficient way to show a pattern. (2/4)

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Koen Van den Eeckhout
@vandeneeckhoutkoen.bsky.social
📊 Turning complex data into powerful visual stories! Author of 'Powerful Charts'. Ex-physicist. He/him 🏳️‍🌈
462 followers34 following76 posts