March 15, 2014
A data visualisation style guide
The Sunlight Foundation has released its internal data visualisation style guidelines (via)
Some of it is just one organisation’s house style, but it’s an attractive style. Some of it is generally useful advice. The main thing they are missing is any advice on representing uncertainty.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »