Text might be the most neglected part of #dataviz. We talk a lot about how the right chart type and colors can improve visualizations – but not enough about how to use words well.

So I wrote about that in my latest article: https://blog.datawrapper.de/text-in-data-visualizations/

If you have a #dataviz job in journalism, you should know about @source@twitter.com & their great
👉 blog: https://source.opennews.org/
👉 community calls: https://opennews.org/what/community/calls/
👉 conferences: https://srccon.org/

Help these smart, lovely people with your opinion: https://source.opennews.org/articles/survey-time-tell-us-about-your-work/

Little color trick: When you feel like your colors don't harmonize with your background colors, try to
1. overlay your colors with the background color
2. choose blend mode "hue"
3. play around with the opacity until you're happy

Here's how to do that in Figma:

A question for all Arabic and Hebrew-speaking people out there: In a #dataviz in your language with a date/time x-axis, would you prefer it to go from right to left, or from left to right? (Polls in the next tweets!)

Examples: https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/general & https://inkyfada.com/ar/2021/08/20/%D9%82%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3/

That's exciting: I'll give a 4.5h workshop about colors in #dataviz at #ISVIS2022 on Sunday, May 8th – my most in-depth color workshop yet!

Join us for lots of hopefully useful information (and help me to build a giant data vis color wheel): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rainbow-unicorns-and-grey-gridlines-colors-in-datavis-online-workshop-tickets-319744152367