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Practical guides for choosing, designing and reading charts — things worth keeping rather than scrolling past.

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13-card guide

Choosing the right chart

Start with the question the chart needs to answer, then choose the form that makes the comparison easiest to see.

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Chart-choice card titled Big Number

Growing reference collection

Icons of Data

The remarkable ways we turn information into understanding. Maps, numbers, symbols and designs that make the complex a little easier to see — or feel.

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Minard reconstruction of Napoleon's Russian campaign: changing band widths show estimated troop numbers during advance and retreat.

Interactive · 8×8 or 16×16

Pixel Art Studio

Two canvas sizes. Twelve colours. A rather good way to spend five minutes. Paint, undo, save and share your masterpiece.

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Red pixel-art heart drawn on an eight by eight grid

Interactive gallery · 28 designs

The Tiny Pixel Zoo

Meet 28 little creatures in 8×8 and 16×16. Tap a design to open it in the Pixel Art Builder and add your own creative mischief.

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Tiny pixel-art animals: cat, bunny, frog and penguin