rules

It’s nice that visualization has developed over the years to the point that there are dedicated classes for it, but I also like learning informally.

Eventually you gotta make the charts for yourself and not for some expert’s approval.

Visualization rules and best practices are generalized solutions to generalized problems. Better visualization requires a more specific view.

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

It can feel like there’s so many rules of visualization that it’s impossible to make a proper visualization. The key: Nothing is absolute.