😍 #30DayChartChallenge 2026 Edition
In 2026, coding is not the same. It would be ridiculous to pretend that LLMs are not better than me at coding, or at least faster. So, this year I decided to participate in the challenge with most of the heavy-lifting done by AI helpers. I created a dedicated space in perplexity with the system prompt that you can see in the github repo. And yes, I expect that this setting will allow me participate wihtout an extreme toll on my time.
🔗 https://github.com/ikashnitsky/30daychart2026
DAY 1 -- part-to-whole ☢️ #30DayChartChallenge
To jumpstart the use of Claude Sonnet 4.6, I chose to grab one of the most known datasets -- Titanic survival by sex and passenger class
🔗 #rstats code: https://github.com/ikashnitsky/30daychart2026
🧙‍♂️ ai chat: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/day-1-part-to-whole-let-s-play-9r2UB4azS3iaj5urON4OXg
DAY 2 -- pictogram #30DayChartChallenge
Drawing my dataviz "rules" (https://github.com/ikashnitsky/dataviz-art-skill). Two versions here: a poster coded in R (ugly) and one generated by nanobanana 🤩
🔗 #rstats code: https://github.com/ikashnitsky/30daychart2026
🧙‍♂️ pplx: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/day-2-pictogram-visualize-my-d-5.dmFgnySe.ZSfIqBHgSng
💎 gemini: https://g.co/gemini/share/33e4c78ebbf5
DAY 3 -- mosaic #30DayChartChallenge
I'm visualizing the diversity of African linguistic families 🌍
This was a #TidyTuesday dataset in week 3 of 2026.
🔗 #rstats code: https://github.com/ikashnitsky/30daychart2026
🧙‍♂️ pplx: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/day-3-mosaic-let-s-use-this-ti-zDS__DsJRq.JzH_jXJ7NVw
Visualizing African linguistic family diversity as a mosaic is a great match — the tile structure maps naturally onto the categorical grouping. The color encoding carries a lot of weight when the tiles are this dense.