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Make the Chart: Grid Map with Stacked Areas

Breaking it down to the small steps and choices with data, code, and editing that lead to a finished chart.

In this new tutorial series, Make the Chart, you’ll walk through the steps to remake a specific visualization that I made from start to finish: data, analysis, code, and editing. Download the data and source material. Apply it to your own work.

In this first tutorial, you’ll remake a grid map with stacked area charts. I hope you find it helpful.

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About the Author

Nathan Yau is a statistician who works primarily with visualization. He earned his PhD in statistics from UCLA, is the author of two best-selling books — Data Points and Visualize This — and runs FlowingData. Introvert. Likes food. Likes beer.