Tools I Love Tools I Love #4: Google Sheets I don't know if I've ever made a visualization without Google Sheets. Like the sturdy vessel of a seasoned explorer, it's fast, powerful, and a key part of almost every data journey I undertake. It's there with me when I get hold of raw data and need to understand it.
Tools I Love Tools I Love #3: Figma Here's a confession - I've never got comfortable with Adobe Illustrator. I'm pretty good with Photoshop. I've got a comfortable handle on Lightroom. But mastery of Illustrator has always eluded me. Why? Because it's bad software. It's slow, it's unintuitive, it's just unpleasant to use. The pen tool makes me
Experiments Make Your Own Data Glyphs With Joyful Data The folks at Gramener's Storylabs have built a "happy little tool" built on JOY.JS that allows you to create your own system for encoding data in glyphs. It's called Joyful Data. Joyful Data — make happy little data visuals; via @gramenerBring your own datasets, design custom visuals in a live,
Tools I Love Tools I Love #2: Flourish The best free platform for making charts on the web is Flourish. It has the best balance of usability, chart types, customisation and export options. Flourish has been a vital part of many of the visualizations I've made. Most complex charts are combinations of simple charts, and Flourish makes it
Tools I Love Tools I Love #1: Copic Multiliner SP Tools are important. A good tool not only removes barriers between you and what you want to do, but makes doing that thing delightful. That's why I want to share with you my current favourite pen. It's the Copic Multiliner SP. I have the 0.3mm version, in black. Here
