Welcome to Drawing Tables. This blog is a “learning experiment” — a chance to play around with data visualization techniques and programs while building up some additional design skills. I hope to dive into a wide range of policy areas and bring a little creative perspective to numbers and data. Most importantly, I hope to have fun.
Because I work best with a little structure, I’ll be drawing on Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and a few other sources to create a kind of syllabus to guide the design projects. I’ll explore different chart types, graphing and design software, and best practices for information design.
Who am I? I’m a former journalist, a policy wonk, writer, editor, researcher, graphic designer and sometime photographer always looking for new ways to tell a story. I’m also a chronic perfectionist, which I hope to challenge at least a little bit with this blog. Design is hard. Data is tricky. I’m learning as I go, and things could get a little ugly.
And that’s going to be OK.
— Laura
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