LIST OF POSTS BY AUTHOR
Aaron Chafetz
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Installing Source Sans Pro Typeface
Source Sans Pro Typeface
2023-08-01
Aaron Chafetz
manual
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Creating a reproducible example (reprex)
coRps Session on creating a reproducible example (reprex)
2023-03-22
Aaron Chafetz
corps
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Monday Data Viz - Moving Beyond Bars with Beeswarms
For those of you following US news at home, the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) fai...
2023-03-20
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Icons + Data Viz
Over the last couple of months, I have been inundated with all sorts of packa...
2023-03-13
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Small Multiples and Group Context
I, like the next data visualizer, love small multiples graphs. And I was happ...
2023-03-06
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Helper Annotation
I came across a not-so-straight forward visualization the other day and it ma...
2023-02-27
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Simple Yet Elegant
I wanted to share a graphic I lifted from Philip Bump’s newsletter. In it, he...
2023-02-06
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - What's your type-face?
With State Department’s move away from Times New Roman to Calibri, I thought ...
2023-01-30
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Tracking Patient Health Stories
This is my first email of the 2023 and I wanted to start off with something a...
2023-01-23
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Coverage Remake
I wanted to share a graph makeover from our very own Tim Essam from a few wee...
2022-12-12
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - The Time Axis
When we go to plot a trend graph, without even thinking, we use the x-axis fo...
2022-12-05
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Timelines and Icons
More World Cup content from me this week. There have been lots of great games...
2022-11-28
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Grouping Categories
The World Cup kicked off this weekend and the US plays their first match this...
2022-11-21
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Part to Whole
I came across this Tableau Viz of the Day by Megan Menth in September and hav...
2022-11-14
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - DST misalignment
Hopefully everyone remembered to turn their clocks back yesterday (though, th...
2022-11-07
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Applying the Style Guide to Our Work
Last week, I was asked to update a visual showing the number of patients curr...
2022-10-31
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Viz Eliciting Emotions
A former colleague of ours flagged a great series of visuals from The Upshot ...
2022-10-24
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Annotations Abound
Last month, the New York Times had an article on the decline in childhood pov...
2022-10-17
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Squares over Circles
When we think of a scatter plot, we think of marks spanning across a x and y ...
2022-09-26
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - The Urban Exodus
I’m teleworking today and writing this from home, which is pretty typical of ...
2022-09-19
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - The importance of context
This week I wanted to share a map that had been making the rounds on social m...
2022-09-12
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Excel FTW
I saw a great post on Twitter last week; great because it validated my world ...
2022-08-29
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - What are we looking at?
Last month while I was traveling, I noticed some visualizating being used on ...
2022-08-22
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Digging a Pit of Success for Your Organization
Presentation at RStudio Conf 2022 in National Harbor
2022-07-25
Aaron Chafetz
presentations
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Monday Data Viz - Connecting with Your Data, Part II
I wanted to follow up on Rohan Jhunja’s amazing Thali chart project that I sh...
2022-07-25
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Connecting with Your Data, Part I
While there were a lot of great articles in the debut issue of The Nightingal...
2022-07-18
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Size and Scope
With everything else in the news recently, the conflict in Ukraine has been r...
2022-06-27
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Dual Axis Manipulation
I’ve long rebuked the use of dual axes plots and last week, I saw yet another...
2022-06-06
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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RBBS - 10 Functions/Iteration Part II
Part 10 of the coRps R Building Blocks Series (RBBS). All content can be foun...
2022-05-23
Aaron Chafetz
corps
rbbs
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RBBS - 10 Functions/Iteration Part I
Part 10 of the coRps R Building Blocks Series (RBBS). All content can be foun...
2022-05-16
Aaron Chafetz
corps
rbbs
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Monday Data Viz - Directional Dumbbell Plots
After going to my fourth Nats’ game over the weekend, I finally attended my f...
2022-05-16
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Sub Par Sports Apps Data Viz
The other weekend, Jessica R and I lucked out with some great weather when we...
2022-05-09
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Slope chart + small multiples
As PEPFAR, we’ve been collecting quarterly MER data that runs back to FY15, s...
2022-04-18
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Aggregating Away the Signal
Last month, Zan Armstrong wrote an amazing article on Stack Overflow’s blog, ...
2022-04-18
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Out of Scale
Working with PEPFAR data is made easier by the fact that there are standard i...
2022-04-11
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Action Oriented Data Viz
I saw a blog post last week that filled my thoughts the rest of the week and ...
2022-04-04
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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RBBS - 6 Importing Data
Part 6 of the coRps R Building Blocks Series (RBBS). All content can be found...
2022-03-28
Aaron Chafetz
corps
rbbs
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Monday Data Viz - Filling the Gap
Last week, Axios put out a COVID visual by Will Chase that I thought was real...
2022-03-28
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Re-plotting the difference
It’s been a little while since Andy Kirk updated his “Little of Visualization...
2022-03-14
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Annotate Like a Designer
During the Data Visualization Conference last month, I caught a session with ...
2022-03-07
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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RBBS - 2 Visualizations, Part II
Part 2 of the coRps R Building Blocks Series (RBBS). All content can be found...
2022-02-28
Aaron Chafetz
corps
rbbs
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Monday Data Viz - Mapping the war in Ukrainian
I know many of us have had our eyes glued to the news and social media these ...
2022-02-28
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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RBBS - 2 Visualizations, Part I
Part 2 of the coRps R Building Blocks Series (RBBS). All content can be found...
2022-02-14
Aaron Chafetz
corps
rbbs
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Monday Data Viz - Iterate, Part III
Sorry to keep harping on this topic, but I really have to do one last write u...
2022-02-14
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Stealing Design Cheats
Data viz is it’s own particular arena, but there is lots to borrow for the de...
2022-02-07
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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RBBS - 1 Motivation
Part 1 of the coRps R Building Blocks Series (RBBS). All content can be found...
2022-01-31
Aaron Chafetz
corps
rbbs
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Monday Data Viz - Data Viz Tools
As analysts, we spend a lot of our time digging into the numbers to analyze, ...
2022-01-31
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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RBBS - 0 Software and Account Setup
Part 0 of the coRps R Building Blocks Series (RBBS). All content can be found...
2022-01-28
Aaron Chafetz
corps
rbbs
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Monday Data Viz - Iterate, Part II
The other week I discussed the importance of iteration and my process from ge...
2022-01-24
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Iterate
I hope everyone is having a good New Year so far and back in the saddle to ta...
2022-01-10
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Books to Propel Your Work Forward in 2022
It’s hard to imagine that we’re only a couple weeks off from the end of the y...
2021-12-13
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Bird is the Word
I’ve been playing quite a bit of Wingspan, the board game, so when I saw Andr...
2021-12-06
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Bump Charts
The Washington Post released a story on the rise of African cities two Friday...
2021-11-29
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Multiple Facets of Different Sizes
In keeping with the recent theme of reviewing the visual hierarchy, I came ac...
2021-11-22
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Color Contrast Tool
A couple weeks back, I brought up the need to check contrast when using grey ...
2021-11-08
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Visual Hierachy, Part II
Last week, I talked a bit about leveraging the visual hierarchy and gave an e...
2021-11-01
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Visual Hierachy, Part I
Data visualization is more than plotting points on a page; it’s a powerful le...
2021-10-25
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Dynamic Scripting Workflow
coRps Session on Dynamic Scripting Workflow
2021-10-25
Aaron Chafetz
corps
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Monday Data Viz - One topic per slide
When presenting data, I’ve learned that it’s best to keep it simple; each sli...
2021-10-18
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Gray...it's not just for breakfast anymore
In data visualization, gray can be one of the most powerful tools in your ars...
2021-10-04
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Offset bars
Germans were at the polls to decide something big, their next government. Fo...
2021-09-27
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Hiking Inspiration
Inspiration comes in all shapes and sizes. Last week, I was really drawn to o...
2021-09-20
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Remake - What’s worth knowing in economics?
Last week I came across an article that had some pretty interesting findings,...
2021-09-13
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Stop the stoplights
The MER Q3 data was just released Friday, which means it’s time yet again to ...
2021-08-23
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Conveying Concepts with Visuals
A picture is worth a thousand words and when we try to explain complex topics...
2021-08-02
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Olympic Inspiration
This year’s Olympics in Tokyo is feeling a bit different with the empty stadi...
2021-07-26
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Spilt Martini
When thinking about Tableau, two topics come directly to my mind: dashboards ...
2021-07-19
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Highlighting Outliers
For most of our data related work in PEPFAR, we look for patterns through ana...
2021-07-12
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - The Full Data Viz Lifecycle
I wanted to share an interesting read from a couple weeks back. In his post, ...
2021-06-28
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Focusing on the "aha" and not the "ooh ahh"
In advance of his new book release, Steve Wexler was on a recent episode of t...
2021-06-21
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - A Riff on Tile Grid Maps
A few weeks ago, the New York Times had an interesting op-ed by Dr. Sema K. S...
2021-06-07
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Whiteboards and Markers
Our SI jobs are very heavily rooted in data analysis and data viz, spending m...
2021-05-24
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Inline Legends
The other week, I was reviewing some old visualizations and was reminded of o...
2021-05-17
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Heads Up!
I imagine some of you had your heads up all weekend, hoping the falling space...
2021-05-10
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Big Impact from Small Multiples
I know we’re all overwhelmed with how omnipresent COVID is in all of our live...
2021-04-26
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Borrowing from Graphic Design
Working with data all the, when it comes to design we think primarily about d...
2021-04-19
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Brood X
We are just a short wait from something I have been counting down for a while...
2021-04-12
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Google API Workflow
coRps Session on Google API Workflow
2021-04-12
Aaron Chafetz
corps
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Monday Data Viz - 30DayChartChallenge
Data viz isn’t something learned in a vacuum or isn’t picked up by purely rea...
2021-04-05
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Elements of a Good Visualization
This morning, I wanted to share an old work that I am constantly reminded of....
2021-03-29
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Encoding Target Achievement
In the PEPFAR space, we spend a lot of time visualizing achievement to monito...
2021-03-22
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Avoiding Stacked Charts
To tie into his book release, Jon Schwabish has had a host of data viz stars ...
2021-03-15
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Working with Messy Spreadsheets
coRps Session on Messy Spreadsheets
2021-03-15
Aaron Chafetz
corps
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Monday Data Viz - Annotate, Annotate, Annotate
As I got started with data viz, I thought the secret to going from a standard...
2021-03-08
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Plot Function
Last week, many of us were busy with the release of Q1 data, updating Tableau...
2021-03-01
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Plot Function
For these posts, I usually share some interesting, novel, or important conten...
2021-02-22
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Mark It Up
I came across a post from a year ago on Alli Torban’s blog, Data Viz Today, w...
2021-02-01
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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Monday Data Viz - Encoding Data
I saw a great graphic from the Washington Post (reposted on Twitter this week...
2021-01-24
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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The Joy of Visualization
This presentation provides an introduction to the OHA Data Visualization Styl...
2021-01-22
Aaron Chafetz
presentations
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Monday Data Viz - Be wary of chloropleth maps
To kick off the year, I wanted to share a nifty gif on twitter the other week...
2021-01-11
Aaron Chafetz
data-viz
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