The blue and pink color scheme for boys and girls, respectively, used to be the norm. Now, not so much.

Every month I collect visualization tools and resources that you can use for or improve your work. Here’s the good stuff for August 2019.

Practicality will make its self known whether you want to or not. So, try different visual forms and take it from there.

This week, we talk annotation and how it can make your charts more readable and easier to understand.

For everyone who does data visualization for a living right now, there was someone who came before.

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

They provide an anchor in your charts, and you compare everything else against the anchor. Where you set the anchor changes your chart completely.

Some people love the Tidyverse in R. Others are less fond of it. For me, the more tools the better.

It’s about purpose. It’s about who your work is for. It’s about what you’re trying to show.

Here is the good stuff for June 2019.

After you’ve made your carefully designed data graphics, you probably want to share them online at some point. This is how I do it.

Assuming you have a dataset in hand, how do you decide what visualization method to use?

Don’t step so far away from the data that you miss the details that provide meaning to the overviews.

Every month I collect links to visualization tools and resources. Here’s the good stuff for May 2019.

People misinterpret charts all of the time, because they go in with the wrong expectations before they even fully interpret what a chart is about.

Visualization is all about making comparisons. If you have nothing to compare to, then the chart fails. In this issue I describe some of the ways you can make your charts more comparable.

There was renewed interest in — gasp — truncated axes this week, a never-ending debate about whether starting axes at non-zero is misleading.

In this guide, I look maybe a little too closely at how to adjust axis labels for more readable charts.

Every month I collect the new tools, resources, and datasets. Here they are for April.

This week’s issue is public.

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Warning: This week’s issue talks about sexual harassment at DataCamp.
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