Visual Design for Safety
Good visual design matters, and Steve notes that his Tesla needed an update because their design didn't meet the specification.
2024-02-21
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Data Visualization
The Best Graph
Today Steve discusses visualizations and how we would think about the information a client gets from them.
2023-05-24
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Better Communication of Information
Learning to better display the information contained in our data is a skill. Steve has a few thoughts today on learning to improve this for himself.
2022-06-20
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When to Use Zero
Charts and graphs need a scale to be meaningful. When to include zero in your scale is a question that is more complicated than Steve expected.
2022-04-13
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Fixing Report Visuals
Building reports and visualizations isn't as simple as we would like. Learning a bit about how to better design them is important.
2021-07-09
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Deceptive Visualizations
I'm sure there are plenty of examples, but I've seen deceptive data visualizations far too often in mass media. I don't often watch the news, but at times I've been at the gym, saw a graph on a television, and been a little surprised. The issue that bothered me is similar to what's discussed in […]
2021-06-19
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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