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The Excel Charts Blog

Personal blog · excelcharts.com/blogdatadesign

The Excel Charts Blog is a personal blog at excelcharts.com about data and design. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link The Excel Charts Blog for data visualization posts on charts and maps. One commenter names it among the top data visualization blogs they follow.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

My Skillshare channel Data visualization for non-designers and other mere mortals. I recently started a Data visualization channel on Skillshare where

What Hacker News says?

  1. e15ctr0n · 2014-05-31Recommends
    These are the top blogs I follow in the data visualization space: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ http://visual.ly/ http://www.thefunctionalart.com/ http://hbr.org/special-collections/insight/visualizing-data http://chartporn.org/ http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/posts/ http://flowingdata.com/ http://datavisualization.ch/ http://visualization.geblogs.com/ No matter how the tools change with time, I am able to keep…

    Comment linking /blog/posts/

    on “Ask HN: List of tools to create beautiful data visualizations”
  2. stfu · 2011-12-05

    Submitted The same data, the same map, different stories as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  3. aw3c2 · 2011-12-05Recommends
    That is a nice post indeed, simple and to the point. I also enjoyed http://www.excelcharts.com/blog/creative-pie-charts-better-i... but that is a different genre of visualisation.

    Comment linking /blog/creative-pie-charts-better-infographics/

    on “The same data, the same map, different stories”
  4. theoutlander · 2014-10-21

    Submitted Classic data visualization in Excel as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Isofarro · 2013-08-23

    Submitted Data visualization should be elegant not beautiful as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. hollasch · 2019-01-11

    Submitted Wordless instructions for making charts: Tableau Edition as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. tomerico · 2011-12-20

    Submitted Beautiful but Terrible Pyramids as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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