Behind the Viz

Personal stories and lessons learned while building data visualizations — the detours, near-mistakes, and small lessons that don’t make it into the finished chart

Behind the Viz

Charts are the finished product, but they rarely show what actually happened while building them. This is where I share the detours — the surprises, the near-mistakes, and the small lessons that came out of a week’s worth of data visualization work, told for anyone doing their own analysis who might hit the same thing.