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What I Learned Recreating One Chart Using 24 Tools
By Lisa Charlotte Rost
Posted onLessons learned from trying to create one chart with as many applications, libraries, and programming languages as possible.
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If Your Reporters Aren’t Making Their Own Charts You’re Wasting Everyone’s Time
By Becky Bowers and David Yanofsky
Posted on“Someone could screw it up” is a terrible excuse not to cede control. We hear it often as a defense of why a newsroom doesn’t let its reporters make their own charts. It sounds reasonable enough, but when you consider the deluge of other types of content that come out of a newsroom getting swiftly edited to the highest standard, it becomes easy to see how the possibility of “screwing it up” is a terrible excuse. It’s time to think about and produce graphics in the same way that we do paragraphs: crafted by a reporter and vetted by an editor for both substance and style.