This Friday I want to highlight a graphic from xkcd that, strictly speaking, isn’t really data visualisation, but it does speak to that world because it’s about the underlying data.
And as with the best humour, there’s an element of truth in it.
2020-21, the years of the asterisks
Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
Author: Brendan Barry
I am a graphic designer who focuses on information design. Most recently I worked for the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and prior to that I was Head of Design at Euromonitor International with my design team split between Chicago and London.
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