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The process of creating data visualization guidelines
Breaking down the activities needed to create data visualization guidelines
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Gabrielle Merite
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Planning the Full Journey of Your Insights
Your insights deserve more than a PDF.
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Gabrielle Merite
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How Spotify Wrapped nails data storytelling (without a single chart)
Every year, Spotify Wrapped takes over social media.
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Gabrielle Merite
Clarity beyond color: Creating data visualization guidelines that empower teams
Most of the organizations we work with strive to be data-driven.
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Gabrielle Merite
A New Chapter Begins: A Founder's Letter
Officially launching a new kind of data design studio, Figures & Figures.
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Gabrielle Merite
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Figma & Dataviz, Gabby's favorite updates (Part I).
A focus on the auto-layout function.
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Gabrielle Merite
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The Chart Audit: your first step to better data visualizations (+ a free resource ✨)
The most effect step in our data visualization guidelines process is also the simplest: the chart audit.
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Behind the Scenes: creating the Escape Velocity data visualization series for Vox
Solarpunk data visuals that show clean energy's unstoppable progress
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Deaf to Information
The election results didn't surprise me.
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Gabrielle Merite
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It's time to change how we use data-driven stories for impact.
Part I: how data-informed stories should help us envision a better world.
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Gabrielle Merite
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The Power of Scale
Lessons from Pentagram #1: How guidelines are one of the most impactful tool for better data visualization for change.
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Gabrielle Merite
Dataviz guidelines: starting with why
The first step of creating a style guide for data visualizations.
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Gabrielle Merite
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