✚ Baseline Point of View

Welcome to The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau. The point of visualization is to understand what data is about, which is rarely just about the numbers and almost always about what the data represents.

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Same facts but different stories, an illustration

Multiple people can look at the same dataset and come out the other end with very different interpretations. [via @SteveStuWill]

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