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The Office of Communications at the Urban Institute is seeking a data visualization designer to join their vibrant and growing team. To build on their continued success with powerful digital content, they're looking...
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Bill Dugan is WRI’s Visual Communications Manager at the World Resources Institute, USA, and also the winner of the second round of the On Think Tanks Data Visualisation competition. We...
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A compilation of all our submissions for the 2014-15 On Think Tanks Data Visualisation Competition, as well as how tos and interviews with the visualisations' creators.
In this post, Jeff Knezovich explains how to create interactive dashboards with Tableau Public. It is part of a series of posts on How to develop Data Visualisations for think tanks
We've already seen one of the ways that we can develop maps using Google FusionTables. But that method gives us points on a map that don't change over time. This How To on Data Visualisation...
In this how to, we will look at how to summarise that data to answer specific questions using the PivotTable utility in Excel.
In this how to we use Microsoft Excel to merge two different datasets. We mainly focus on the VLOOKUP function, but also remove duplicates.
In this how to, we will look at how to use Google Drive Spreadsheets to import live data from the web. I should note that this function is available in newer versions of Excel as well, though...
In this how to, we use data that we already collected from Import.io and import it into Google FusionTables in order to create a map of that information. We use an example of mapping...