Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and when I spend too much time caring about tiny details, I get stuck too easily. But going the other direction — not caring at all with a bunch of hand-waving — leads to mediocre things that might as well have gone to the trash.
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