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Annotate Charts to Help Your Data Speak, Because the Data Has No Idea What It Is Doing (The Process #52)

This issue marks one year’s worth of The Process. I’ve come this far. Might as well keep on writing.

This week, we talk annotation and what it is good for. Visualization is great and all for revealing patterns and “letting the data speak.” But, it’s not always obvious what a chart shows or what the chartmaker tried to show.

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