The Process

✚ Chart Different, Then Adjust (The Process #53)

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by Nathan Yau / August 22, 2019 / experiment, failure, The Process

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

✚ Annotate Charts to Help Your Data Speak, Because the Data Has No Idea What It Is Doing (The Process #52)

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by Nathan Yau / August 15, 2019 / annotation, The Process

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

✚ Who Inspired Visualization Practitioners to Become Visualization Practitioners (The Process #51)

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by Nathan Yau / August 8, 2019 / inspiration, The Process

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

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, July 2019 Roundup (The Process #50)

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by Nathan Yau / August 1, 2019 / roundup, The Process

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

✚ Adjusting the Point of Reference to Highlight Different Aspects of the Data (The Process #49)

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by Nathan Yau / July 18, 2019 / baseline, point of reference, The Process

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

✚ Select Your Weapon (The Process #48)

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by Nathan Yau / July 11, 2019 / R, The Process, Tidyverse, Tools

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

✚ Failure to Communicate (The Process #47)

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by Nathan Yau / July 3, 2019 / communication, The Process, tradeoffs, whizbang

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

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, June 2019 Roundup (The Process #46)

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by Nathan Yau / June 27, 2019 / roundup, The Process

Here is the good stuff for June 2019. Read More

✚ Publishing Data Graphics Online (The Process #45)

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by Nathan Yau / June 20, 2019 / publishing, sharing, The Process

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. Read More

✚ Choosing Your Charts (The Process #44)

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by Nathan Yau / June 13, 2019 / chooser, The Process

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