“The Guardian” had the data and I had a free afternoon — “The Guardian” has recently published a list of just 20 companies, who are responsible for a third of all the global energy-related CO₂ emissions since 1965, a year when the political and industry leaders acknowledged that burning fossil fuels has a direct impact on the environment. …

What to do when you have gender proportion data from 12 countries over 5 dimensions, all of it says “roughly 25%” and you want to make a compelling visual without having to remove complexity? — Sarah Leo from “The Economist” recently wrote an interesting article, where she gave examples of graphs that were “(1) misleading, (2) confusing and (3) failing to make a point”, along with her proposed revisions. …