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This is the 300th weekly issue of The Process. Have things changed? Do we visualize data differently now? Where is this headed?

Sometimes the noise in a dataset makes it hard to see the worthwhile patterns when you visualize it. Here are chart options for you.

Small changes over time or small differences between categories can easily look insignificant, even if they’re worth noting in real life. Here are chart options for you.

We often talk about visualization in terms of restrictions and rules, as if you must limit your possibilities to make charts the right way. As you might have guessed, there are other options.

As more charts shift to smaller screens, we have to find ways to save space but keep the data readable. There are options.

Maybe you’ve run into the rare situation/blessing of too much space, and you’re not sure how to fill it. There are options.

Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get…

Visualizing time series data often assumes that your data points are evenly spaced over time, which is not always the case.

A long bar chart can be a bit much, so here are simple options to make it less jumble-ish.