The Process

✚ Less Time With Methods, More Time With Questions and Context (The Process #61)

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by Nathan Yau / October 17, 2019 / context, Kevin Durant, Nate Silver, questions, The Process

Hi, Data represents the real world, and visualization represents data. But sometimes data… Read More

✚ How Intentions Changed How People Read the Same Map (The Process #60)

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by Nathan Yau / October 10, 2019 / intention, The Process

Visualization has a way of making things feel more concrete and definite. So how is it that interpretation gets so fuzzy? Read More

✚ Visualization for Analysis vs. Visualization for an Audience (The Process #59)

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by Nathan Yau / October 3, 2019 / analysis, audience, The Process

The visualizations are used and read differently, which requires that you approach their design differently. Read More

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, September 2019 Roundup (The Process #58)

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by Nathan Yau / September 26, 2019 / roundup, The Process

Every month I collect the latest visualization tools and resources on how to make the most of your data. Here's the good stuff for September. Read More

✚ Reddit Follow-up; Chart Like Nobody’s Looking (The Process #57)

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by Nathan Yau / September 19, 2019 / attention, audience, Reddit, The Process

Consider your audience. Yes. But at some point in the visualization creation process, you have to disregard all of the feature requests and design suggestions. Read More

✚ That Time My Chart Was on the Reddit Front Page and Everyone Hated It (The Process #56)

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by Nathan Yau / September 12, 2019 / criticism, Reddit, The Process

Something I made was on the front page of Reddit. Cool. The problem: thousands of people downvoted it. Here's what I learned. Read More

✚ Straying from the Blue-Pink Color Scheme to Represent Gender in Visualization (The Process #55)

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by Nathan Yau / September 5, 2019 / color, Gender, The Process

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

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, August 2019 Roundup (The Process #54)

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by Nathan Yau / August 29, 2019 / roundup, The Process

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. Read More

✚ 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