Research & resources: Visualize key data 3 wildly different ways.

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• Edward Tufte — quiet precision — Small, aligned comparisons that make a departure from the pattern jump out.
• Hans Rosling / Gapminder — make change move — Animated journeys or successive frames that let you watch the story unfold.
• Giorgia Lupi — make the data human — Distinctive marks and individual detail that give a large dataset texture and personality.
• David McCandless — make scale click — Bold visual comparisons that make an otherwise abstract number feel comprehensible.
• W. E. B. Du Bois and the Atlanta team — a bold visual argument — Striking color, geometry, and direct comparisons that give the evidence presence.
• Nadieh Bremer — reveal the connections — An explorable web that makes relationships, concentrations, and dependencies visible.
• Shirley Wu — make the pattern unexpected — Flowers, trees, or another visual metaphor whose shapes and colors encode real values.

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