AUTHOR’S NOTE
HELLO.
More than five years after the publication of Good Charts, everything has changed. And nothing has as well.
When I say everything has changed, I’m of course talking about, well, everything. The world has endured a pandemic, and many feel a great sense of unease. Information—data—was everywhere five years ago, a fact I mentioned in the introduction to Good Charts, but it has moved beyond that now. In the past half-decade, data and data visualization have grown exponentially. They’ve been used to great effect. They’re connected, for example, to creative breakthroughs in medicine and the creation of entirely new business sectors pouring massive value into the economy. They’ve been used to educate a grieving, locked-down public ...
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