Great Data Visualization

Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data — tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results.

In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years.

The Year that Music Died is an animated timeline that shows the Billboard top 5 songs since 1956. The visualization also plays the song that was number one, during the week that is being shown in the visual. It is well-thought out, simple and informative. It does not linger on a particular data point for too long. Check it out, here.

Be creative and ensure your visualizations and insights tell a story in a multidimensional way.