The #10YearChallenge, Data Visualization Style

We all start somewhere with our dataviz skills. I’m not the only data visualization designer with skeletons in my closet. We’ve alllll made mistakes. In this post, I pulled some of my friends together and asked them to share their past work, too. They were great sports and had fun laughing at themselves along the way, too.
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Could Your Long Report become a City Billboard? Use Data Viz Techniques to Create High-Impact Materials

Do you have a long report that took a lot of time and effort, but you’re not really sure how anyone is going to use it? Annual progress reports, data publications, strategic planning documents… many of us spend a lot of time writing these documents, and they’re necessary to capture a lot of detailed information. Here is an example of how I turned a long report into accessible, graphic summaries.
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The Future of Data Visualization: Predictions for 2019 and Beyond

What’s in store for the future of data visualization? A decade ago, I celebrated making my very first 3d exploding pie chart for a report that I was writing. Nowadays, I can’t open my laptop without my jaw dropping on the floor as I scroll through site after site of data visualization masterpieces. How times have changed! In this article, we’ll celebrate data visualization accomplishments from the past 12 months and make predictions for data visualization in the coming 12 months (and beyond). I turned to YOU, the data visualization community, and listened to your feedback. I created a quick poll on Google Sheets and I also asked you to reflect on both Twitter and LinkedIn. Here’s what you said about the best data visualizations of 2018 as well as your predictions for the future of data visualization in 2019 and beyond.
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