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Is nuclear renewable? Some say so, some say so…

This morning, I finished my color key research and grouped them:

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I then designed a lot of different color keys (that was fun! Interesting to see the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches):

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And then I started to write up what I learned in that research phase. I wrote 4 pages on what to keep in mind when designing categorical color keys, and designed a few figures for that:

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I also did some design work for Datawrapper and gave feedback to some ideas that my coworker Rose had.

Next week: How to better design color keys for quantitative color scales! I’m looking forward to that. Enjoy your weekend (eventually) 👋