Here’s the good stuff for January.

Thinking about the differences between boring charts and not so boring charts.

The discussions this week felt familiar. Probably because we’ve seen this many times, since the beginning of charts themselves.

It’s time to bask in the joys of knowing nothing again.

In the last roundup of 2021, here’s the good stuff for December.

A little bit of sorting and organization can make a big difference in readability.

What happens when you spend too much time with a dataset.

Here’s the good stuff for November.

It’s a shift from answering “What is this data?” to “So what?”

A term to indicate that visual elements add nothing meaningful has itself become nonessential to making and discussing charts.

All the tools are a product of visualization’s many uses, which isn’t so terrible. But not all the tools are champions.

Here’s the good stuff for October.

When you visualize aspects of the data instead of just the data itself, what you show grows more obvious.

Not everything has to be in the visualization at the same time.

This is the best freelance advice ever written.

At least it gave us something to look forward to.

Here’s the good stuff for September.

The only limit is your imagination.

If I had to pick just one.

Bar charts are the simple answer. Maybe you’re not looking for simple though.