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The Financial Times visual vocabulary
A chart thesaurus
In 2016, I set about the task of expanding the range of charts in regular use at the Financial Times. Doing so would involve introducing unfamiliar chart forms to everyone across the newsroom, not just my colleagues in the Visual journalism team. But how to do it? An email newsletter? A website? An app? I considered and discarded various approaches. None seemed to hit the spot I was aiming for.
What I really wanted was something physical – that would make it much harder to ignore in the newsroom. It needed to be both attractive and informative. Above all, it needed to be in a format that ...
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