Recent Blog Posts - Darkhorse Analytics

Data looks better naked
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Rather than dressing our data up, we should be stripping it down. A look at how to remove to improve.
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A Simple Tool
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A Simple Tool
The mortgage calculators we've looked at are terrible. So we look to simplify the process in our new tool.
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A Simple Tool
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A Simple Tool
We took a look at the terrible mortgage calculators out there and improved the experience by making things simple. Continue reading →
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Bubbles, Bricks and Tukey’s Tics
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Bubbles, Bricks and Tukey’s Tics
In Stephen Few’s latest newsletter he proposed a new method for displaying geospatial data. Not long after, based on feedback from Andy Cotgreave and others, he expressed his disappointment with breadth of applications for which the technique seems useful. What … Continue reading →
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Bubbles, Bricks and Tukey's Tics
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Bubbles, Bricks and Tukey's Tics
A look at some of the different methods for displaying quantitative differences geo-spatially.
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Interactive NHL Visualization
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Interactive NHL Visualization
Interactivity can provide whole new perspectives, facilitate more comparisons, and encourage exploration and discovery. See what stories are revealed in our new interactive NHL visualization.
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Exceltron Annual Report (or Pretty Counts)
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Exceltron Annual Report (or Pretty Counts)
People highly value style, even to their own detriment. That means we need to value style but execute without causing detriment. We need to find a way to ensure that we not only deliver data in a meaningful way but also seek to deliver it in a compelling/engaging style.
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Cursory Dashboard Principles
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Cursory Dashboard Principles
A few lines presenting some cursory dashboard design principles.
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Diverging Stacked Bars
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Diverging Stacked Bars
We take a new and difficult to interpret infographic and reimagine it using an old but underused graphic form.
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