{"id":2123,"date":"2014-11-03T08:15:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T12:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2014-11-01T08:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:14:28","slug":"data-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/data-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Data + Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"data-design-cover\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A team of over 50 people have collaborated in Data+Design<\/a>, a book about preparing and visualizing information.<\/p>\n

It’s a thorough but simple introduction to data collection and visualization, very thoroughly written and chock full of great advice.<\/p>\n

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axis labels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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labels in mobile charts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s open-source too<\/a>, published in its present form using O’Reilly’s Atlas e-publishing platform<\/a>, which produces very clean, readable books.<\/p>\n

Go and read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It’s a thorough but simple introduction to data collection and visualization, very thoroughly written and chock full of great advice.   It’s open-source too, published in its present form using O’Reilly’s Atlas e-publishing platform, which produces very clean,… Continue reading Data + Design<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[198,197],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projectmanagement-en","tag-charts","tag-visualization","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tlzy-yf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2157,"url":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/a-swiss-railway-clock-in-d3\/","url_meta":{"origin":2123,"position":0},"title":"A swiss railway clock in D3.js","author":"Daniel Pradilla","date":"09\/06\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 The other day I saw this cool JavaScript+CSS clock and I immediately thought that I wanted to create an analog clock in D3.js. 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