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Re: Data looks better naked

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Post by soneca »

pvnick wrote: post #31

For every chart you could ever want with a very easy-to-use API, highcharts ( http://www.highcharts.com/ ) is your best friend. Free for personal use, inexpensive for commercial license. Highcharts will let you show as much or as little as you want. It's funny the author chose calorie per food portion for the example, I'm actually developing a web app that helps plan diets and I did exactly the same thing - remove la…

Out of topic, but counting calories don't mean squad for a diet. It is a myth. Read http://garytaubes.com/ for a good research on this.

Counting carbs is what is important. Low Carb, High Fat is what science tells you should do to loose wait. Using thermodynamics to understand our biology is useless.

EDIT for on topic add: Useless data is useless, naked or not. They should have chosen a better example.

Re: Data looks better naked

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Post by mhurron »

jimmaswell wrote: post #41

There was nothing wrong with that chart in the first place. What a pointless optimization.

Well it was butt ugly. Personally I think they went too far in minimizing the look but that's just me.

But it did start off seriously ugly, but then again, it was made to be. I guess it was something of a straw graph, no one would really make a graphic like that.

Re: Data looks better naked

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Post by pmahoney »

rcfox wrote: post #37
pmahoney wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The idea is to keep focus on the data. The labels are reference when exact numbers are needed, but the data trend is king.

The trend is meaningless without a reference. For example: http://i.imgur.com/zXkkJw4.png vs. http://i.imgur.com/f6A84ds.png It's the same exact data (which I made up, by the way) but the first one tells a very different story from the second.

This has nothing to do with putting labels in bold or not, unless I misunderstood?

Re: Data looks better naked

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Post by meowface »

soneca wrote: post #43
pvnick wrote: post #31

For every chart you could ever want with a very easy-to-use API, highcharts ( http://www.highcharts.com/ ) is your best friend. Free for personal use, inexpensive for commercial license. Highcharts will let you show as much or as little as you want. It's funny the author chose calorie per food portion for the example, I'm actually developing a web app that helps plan diets and I did exactly the same thing - remove la…

Out of topic, but counting calories don't mean squad for a diet. It is a myth. Read http://garytaubes.com/ for a good research on this. Counting carbs is what is important. Low Carb, High Fat is what science tells you should do to loose wait. Using thermodynamics to understand our biology is useless. EDIT for on topic add: Useless data is useless, naked or not. They should have chosen a better example.

Nutrition science is highly contested; for every report or paper that claims one thing, another will completely refute it.

Re: Data looks better naked

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Post by JasonCEC »

nicklovescode wrote: post #27

Does anyone have any examples of great analytics dashboards(of any kind)? I've always been a bit unimpressed with most of them. Making the base presentation simple and clean while still allowing powerful filtering can be tricky.

My company makes analytics dashboards for Statistical Quality Control and Flavor profiling of artisan products... I think it's pretty good with its filtering options and the like. Link to our first tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvHbNcrobwc
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