Is an average always the best way to summarize data? No! It can be useful to look at the underlying distribution of data and sometimes makes sense to show the variation. This month’s challenge is to visualize the variability in data. There are numerous ways to do so: the recap post this time around should be a good collection of approaches!

Do you find yourself needing to communicating with qualitative data? This post discusses three best practices when communicating with qualitative data—effectively using color, reducing text and considering if audience needs quantitative context—and illustrates through example.

When presenting live, you have a ton of opportunity to build a graph or a story piece by piece for your audience. Check out the 90-second video in this post illustrating an example of how we do this at storytelling with data.