A picture is worth..

So, Christmas has finally come and gone, and here we are again, hopefully still merry and bracing for 2019. It’s a good time to celebrate, but an equally good time to kickback and recharge. Me? I’m doing the latter. By a beach, relaxed. The looming end of the year has had me reflecting on how I got to this point.

 

Six years ago, I joined a financial daily as a data visualiser. A recent J-school graduate, I wasn’t sure what lay ahead of me. Data visualisation to me was just bar charts and trendlines. And so it remained until I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte, a statistician and professor emeritus at Yale. A chart can speak volumes, I learnt. If done right, that is.

 

When I joined The Ken a few months ago, I was happy to learn that the motivation to declutter and refine information extended to the realm of design. Here, a chart—a simple chart—is the product of endless debate between journalist, designer and editors. As a designer, I could not be happier to be a part of the story-making process. The result is evident in our infographics and charts—creative, lucid, and loaded with information.

 

To give you an idea of the way we visualise our information, we’ve curated a list of some of our favourite infographics as part of our year-ender series. Check them out here: https://the-ken.com/best-of-2018-infographics/