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Business analyst, who does dataviz on the job or on the side, in Christchurch, New Zealand
@andykirk this one seemed odd, in that it was allowed to slip through the normally high quality gate at The Guardian

@moritz climate offers geo data, ethics, misleading data, many options to explore

Cultural analytics would be blast tho

@aditya ooh pretty.
@aditya is this a sankey layout underneath? looks great!
@francis @alexwein @matth below is a chart (from this article https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/30/business/a-record-year-for-auto-recalls.html
) i often use at workshops that provides some great design tips for this problem:
- shift the y axis over to the right
- datapoint color dark v light
- x axis label dark v light
A Record Year for Auto Recalls

More vehicles, including old models, have been recalled in the United States in 2014 than ever before. Explore the size and scope of the recalls, and find out if your car has been affected.

@alexwein nice! this would be useful for series with very long periods of nothing happening. and then having the top chart much smaller for reference would be a good space saver; and the bottom could accommodate annotations aplenty
@vlandham hi - these are some really interesting ideas
@moritz @maarten i feel the discussion landed somewhere on i the concept being is less about having a "beginning/middle/end", and more about adding the personal elements and the "so what".
@moritz @maarten would it be that the concept of data "storytelling", while not 100% resolved, has been discussed a lot within the last year, and there are better descriptions of what it is and isn't?

Please take a moment and fill out the 2018 Data Visualization Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft5kH866hkyVbxqe8Cl7mJDBLbpy5aWIHmYP5ztdO8RDattg/viewform

Elijah Meeks did this last year, and provide lots of good insights and discussions around the data viz industry

Data Visualization Community Survey 2018

Last year's survey of the data visualization community gave us great material to analyze and visualize. With over a thousand responses from various practitioners, it also revealed aspects of the survey that underserved some audiences. This year's survey has many of the same questions, so we can see if anything has changed in how data visualization is being done, but also some adjustments to better reflect these different modes of practice. This survey is anonymous and the results will be released to the public on Github. It's a long survey, but if enough of us take the time to answer all these questions, we'll all have access to the resulting dataset for visualization and analysis, and that means we'll all be able to better achieve success in this field. Survey questions and final draft edited by Elijah Meeks but were based on much input from data visualization professionals all over. The anonymized results will be released publicly after the survey is closed.