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Creating the Scientific American “Baby Spike” visual

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On the Graphic Science page of the July edition of Scientific American you could find three large circular charts about when babies are born. In this blog, let me take you along on the data & designs process that me, Zan Armstrong & Jen Christiansen went through to create this piece.

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Learning data visualization

See my personal favorite resources to help you get better in “the visualization of data”. Learn about best practices & the design process from other dataviz practitioners and useful tools through articles, tutorials and useful websites.

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Dataviz books reviews

One of the first things I did after throwing myself into data visualization was to read lots of books about best practices. Here you can find reviews that I've written on each of the books. Hopefully it will help you decide which book to read.

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