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A flood of RAW joy

I keep hearing about Density Design’s RAW tool and had it filed away in the back of my mind to try out sometime. As usual, necessity is the mother of actually doing something. So, I did something, and now I am a happy camper. What a great tool!

I wanted to show a client how an alluvial diagram would do a good job of expressing some relationships in their data and was not thrilled at the prospect of trying to mock it up in Illustrator. In my search for an easier way, I stumbled across RAW again and had a vector sample in minutes. Brilliant.

Here’s a sample output (not the actual client’s data):

Blueberry
284,192BlueberryChocolate
35,983ChocolateGrape
44,578GrapeLemon
61,402LemonLime
52,560LimeOrange
39,783OrangeGumdrop
23,983GumdropIce Cream
76,375Ice CreamLollipop
7,925LollipopMuffin
15,720MuffinPie
297,565PieTart
96,930Tart

Thanks Density Design! Sad I waited so long.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, February 12th, 2015 at 6:23 pm and is filed under Data Visualization, Graphs and Charts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “A flood of RAW joy”

  1. February 27th, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    Chris Martin says:

    Grape pie?

    (Nice diagram though)

  2. February 27th, 2015 at 4:14 pm

    Erik Jacobsen says:

    Sure. Who doesn’t love grape pie?
    http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Concord-Grape-Pie
    The actual data I used this for has to do with network traffic, with applications on the left (e.g. Google Play or FTP) and file types on ther right (e.g. ZIP or PDF). Perhaps a bit more useful than the flavors of desserts. 🙂