GoKawiil50 Hours to Draw Some Lines
Hand drawing data visualizations with artist Doug MacDowell
Description: I used to live on a quiet road on top of a huge hill. When leaves were on the trees it felt secluded, and when the leaves fell, the entire city would appear below as sparkling lights. Sometimes, I'd run into a neighbor.
"What are you working on these days?"
"Data visualizations." I told him.
"Ah, you using algorithms, machine learning, cloud computing, things like that?"
"No." I said. "I'm just trying to draw a line graph."
My neighbor thought I was getting into some complex sh**. But what's been more interesting to me lately than using powerbi, powerpoint, tableau, D3, python, illustrator, R is learning to draw data by hand. 50 Hours to Draw Some Lines is about spending more than a week on something that software can accomplish in 20 minutes - and a catalog of resources and methods acquired along the way.
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