Koen Van den Eeckhout

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Turning complex data into powerful visual stories! 📊 Founder of #dataviz agency Baryon Design. Ex-physicist. Allergic to negativity. He/him 🏳️‍🌈
Workhttps://baryon.be/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Koen_VdE
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/koenvandeneeckhout/
Koen Van den EeckhoutFeb 27, 2023

🥳 New team member! For the next few months, JavaScript wizard Lars is joining us as a senior front-end developer to help us build visual stories and interactive reports in an efficient way.

💻 Thank you With Eleven for the collaboration!

Show threadKoen Van den EeckhoutFeb 17, 2023
Original source: DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs of the @EU_Commission
#informationdesign #datavisualization #dataviz #redesign
Show threadKoen Van den EeckhoutFeb 17, 2023
Some further minor details we changed in the charts below:
✅ No abbreviations -> easier to recognize the countries
✅ Horizontal layout -> easier to read the labels
✅ Clearer indication of the average value -> easier comparison to the average
✅ Lollipop chart rather than a dot plot -> easier comparison between categories
✅ Color variation to highlight negative values
✅ Helpful annotations to help interpreting what the indicator means
✅ Shorter text and shorter line length -> easier reading
Show threadKoen Van den EeckhoutFeb 17, 2023
My suggestion is almost always to break apart the chart into two separate charts, each telling one part of the story. By carefully aligning the axis, it will become clear that both charts are closely related.
Koen Van den EeckhoutFeb 17, 2023

🚩 Watch out for one of the biggest red flags in a chart: dual axes!

Using two axes in one chart is like saying: I'm trying to tell two or more stories at the same time here. It's up to you to unravel what belongs to story 1, and what belongs to story 2.

Koen Van den EeckhoutJan 23, 2023

😱 Writing a book is a super stressful process, but waiting for reviews once it's 'out there' is even more agonizing. Today I finally found the courage to read some first comments.

🥰 This absolutely made my day! Thanks to everyone for taking the time to share your thoughts!

#PowerfulCharts

Show threadKoen Van den EeckhoutJan 9, 2023

This is the 10th episode in a series of practical insights and guidelines to help you create better data visuals.

📘 If you want to learn more, I invite you to read my book Powerful Charts, published by Owl Press: https://www.borgerhoff-lamberigts.be/shop/boeken/powerful-charts .

And if you don't like videos, here's the link to the blog post!
https://baryon.be/can-you-use-excel-to-create-a-powerful-chart/

Powerful Charts

Powerful Charts explains how basic design and communication principles help you decide which chart type is best for you, which out-of-the-box charts might grab the attention of your audience, and how you should style them.

Borgerhoff & Lamberigts
Koen Van den EeckhoutJan 9, 2023

📊 You don't need fancy design tools or complicated software to create powerful charts. Well-known spreadsheet tools like Excel can do the job - as long as you keep the data visualization principles in mind!

https://youtu.be/m_ckfXjJo4w

#dataviz #video

10. Can you use Excel to create a powerful chart?

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Koen Van den EeckhoutJan 4, 2023

First attempt (ever) at creating some #generativeart, for #genuary2023

#genuary4: Intersections

Click here to generate your own useless intersections: https://codepen.io/differenti/full/BaPLdjM

Intersection generator

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CodePen
Show threadKoen Van den EeckhoutJan 4, 2023

This is the 9th episode in a series of practical insights and guidelines to help you create better data visuals.

📘 If you want to learn more, I invite you to read my book Powerful Charts, published by Owl Press: https://www.borgerhoff-lamberigts.be/shop/boeken/powerful-charts .

And if you don't like videos, here's the link to the blog post!
https://baryon.be/choosing-the-right-font-for-your-data-visual/

Powerful Charts

Powerful Charts explains how basic design and communication principles help you decide which chart type is best for you, which out-of-the-box charts might grab the attention of your audience, and how you should style them.

Borgerhoff & Lamberigts