Here’s the good stuff for June.

If you’re looking for visual inspiration, one or two centuries back is a good place to start.

The right baseline provides a way to compare everything else in a useful way. The wrong baseline makes the rest of the data useless.

Keep your eyes open.

Every month I collect useful visualization tools and resources to make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for May.

The Georgia Department of Public Health published a questionable chart showing confirmed Covid-19 cases over time. Intentionally misleading or poorly made chart?

This issue of The Process is public.

Hi,

Nathan here. This is The Process, the weekly newsletter for FlowingData members where I look at charts closer.

This issue is public, but if you’d like to support FlowingData, becoming a member is the best way to do it. Membership keeps the blog running as a free resource for everyone and gets you bonus access to tutorials, courses, and more.

A new tutorial on animated charts went up yesterday. Maarten Lambrechts explains step-by-step, using the ggplot and gganimate packages in R.

This week, I follow up on the coronavirus visual rundown from two months ago, when there were only 1,190 confirmed cases in the United States. (omg.) A lot has happened since then.

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It looks like a tornado. It’s messy. It’s circular. It almost looks intentionally confusing. But how bad is it really?

Every month, I collect visualization tools and resources that might help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for April.

There’s a new tool-agnostic course now available for members. Check it out now.

The data might exist on a single page or in a single file, but there’s always more to it. Take a step outside for a better view.

I have a lot of books stacked on my desk. It’s kind of embarrassing. Now seems like a good as time as any to read them.

Here are some useful distractions for you as you stay-at-home and wait for an unknown amount of time.

Every month I collect useful visualization tools and resources to help you work better or more efficiently. Here’s the good stuff for March.

We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, but we can look at what we do know and make our best guess.

This issue of The Process is public.

Hi,

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been finding it hard to concentrate the past week or so. I keep getting guidelines on washing hands and reassurances from the kids’ school that everything is sanitized multiple times per day. There are empty shelves at the stores with toilet paper and hand sanitizer. It all just feels very uneasy.

And, as I’m sure you heard, the World Health Organization classified Covid-19 as a pandemic. Naturally, I continued voraciously consuming information about the coronavirus. Here’s a rundown of the useful visuals that have crossed my way. They didn’t help with the uneasiness, but they at least provide a window into what’s happening.

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These past few weeks, and especially this one, has been full of uncertainty. Probabilities, odds, and rates. In this issue of The Process we talk about ways to visualize this uncertainty.

Every month I collect useful tools and resources for visualization. Here’s the good stuff for February 2020.

Welcome to a new segment where I try to put myself in the shoes of someone who made a bad chart and try to make it better.

This week, a few projects went up on the internets about money and spending, each with different goals and approaches. In this issue of The Process, we look at each more closely.