‘Tis the season to be merry (irrespective of which holiday you celebrate), so let’s combine that festive cheer with something near and dear to us all: data visualization! This month, your challenge is to visualize data related to the holidays.

People shared examples of sticky notes used in a variety of ways in response to the November challenge. They are small, which forces concision, lend themselves to being easily rearranged and remove the constraints of our tools. Pick up a pack of post its the next time you find yourself needing to communicate with data! Check out the post for inspiration of how others have used stickies as a strategic tool.

This month, we’re using one of my favorite low tech tools: sticky notes! I use stickies to storyboard nearly every time I communicate—with data, or otherwise. Use them to brainstorm, to arrange (and rearrange) and edit. Employ them however you will find helpful: pick up a pack of post its and have fun!

Forty-seven people created and shared scatterplots! Many made their visuals accessible through clear titling, labeling, and in some cases adding reference lines. There were a handful of connected scatterplots, many bubblegraphs, and some standard scatters on a variety of topics and created with an impressive mix of tools this month!

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.

October’s challenge is to create a scatterplot. We encourage you to make your scatters accessible with clear titling labeling and reference lines where appropriate. We also welcome the variations of connected scatterplots and bubblegraphs. Click for more details and examples!