Design Principles
A visualization must be easily understandable by everyone who sees it. This article demonstrates some ways to ensure that charts are understandable and engaging.
Do
Do be creative with your legends and labels
Possibilities:
- Label lines individually (Gregor Aisch, Doing the Line Charts Right)
- Rotate bars if the category names are long (Cole Nussbaumer, my penchant for horizontal bar charts)
- Put value labels on bars to preserve the clean lines of the bar lengths
