The 12 Days of Christmas, as referenced in the song, starts in most traditions on Christmas Day and ends on January 6. Our version, the “12 Days of Data Visualization”, allows you to have all of your gifts in one day -- bonus. Each “day” links to data visualization resources that we’ve shared with you over the years or find particularly enlightening, and are well worth repeating -- the proverbial “gifts that keep on giving”.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a white paper to set my data free.
On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Two Hans Rosling presentations.
On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Three tree-maps.
On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Four font rules.
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Five filter features.
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Six principles of context.
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Seven data viz galleries for inspiration.
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Eight better dashboards.
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Nine online resources (and a great Stanford data viz video).
On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Ten metrics no-no’s.
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, Eleven lines of code.
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, “12-step” pie chart treatment.
From all of us to you and yours, have a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year! Wishing you many successful visualizations in 2011!
The Juice Analytics Team