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Data Stories: Explaining Visualizations, Choosing a Color Scale, Early Data Visualization Training

How to explain data visualizations, select the right colors for a new visualization, and learn from earlier visualization methods.

By Upside Staff
August 17, 2022

Improving Understanding

What can the right explanation do to support a data visualization that must display complex data and ideas?

Clarity in Color

This post on the Datawrapper blog shows the same data encoded with different color scales to show how a design decision that seems simple can become complex.

Tools and Principles

How much has data visualization changed (and not changed) in the last 34 years? Check out this article to see some instructions from 1988 for drawing charts.

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