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Stories

Charts answer questions. Stories change minds. Four exhibitions, five traditions — every one built from scratch on real, computed data from Simran's world, each stating exactly what it demonstrates.

NEW · THE ATLAS OF FORMSAFTER THE FT VISUAL VOCABULARY

Ten forms, built from nothing

Sankey, treemap, ridgeline, beeswarm, annotated curve, bump chart, correlation ring, parallel coordinates, streamgraph, and a live calendar — every one hand-coded in raw SVG on real data, with a museum card each: when to reach for it, when not to, its lineage, and what it found. The tenth chart redraws itself from her study log while you watch.

DEMONSTRATES · LAYOUT ALGORITHMS (SQUARIFY · WIGGLE · SWARM) · PEARSON MATRICES · FORM JUDGMENT · INTERACTION DESIGN

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01 · SCROLL ESSAYAFTER THE PUDDING

129,880 journeys

Scroll through the entire airline dataset as one moving graphic — eight scenes: the crowd, the verdict, the class canyon, the ★3→★4 cliff, the delay myth busted with 120 real journeys, the travel-type divide (58.4% vs 10.1%), the age mountain, and the answer. One sticky canvas, a reading progress bar, zero approximations.

DEMONSTRATES · NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE · SCROLL ENGINEERING · STATISTICAL HONESTY · ~6 MIN

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02 · MAKEOVERAFTER STORYTELLING WITH DATA

One chart, five rungs

The same three numbers climbed from mute spreadsheet, through a criminally 3-D pie and a mumbling tool default, to a chart that argues and a boardroom slide that decides. Every rung graded, with its sins and virtues itemised. Arrow keys walk the ladder.

DEMONSTRATES · CHART CRITICISM · CLEVELAND–McGILL · ANNOTATION LAYERING · INTERACTIVE

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03 · PERSONAL DATAAFTER DEAR DATA

Dear Simran

Her study log as hand-drawn correspondence — a fortnight of wobbly chai cups, a month of inked tiles, and the reverse-side legend that explains how to read them. Every stroke is seeded jitter drawn in code, fed live by her daily ritual: log a session, refresh, and the postcard grows a cup. Addressed to the Simran of next year.

DEMONSTRATES · DATA HUMANISM · GENERATIVE SVG · LIVE PIPELINE · UPDATES DAILY

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STANDING ON SHOULDERS — THE TRADITIONS THESE FOLLOW

The Pudding (scrollytelling visual essays) · Data Sketches by Shirley Wu & Nadieh Bremer (process-first portfolios) · Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (the makeover) · 1 Pixel Wealth by Matt Korostoff (the scroll mechanic) · Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec (data humanism). Studied, credited, and reinterpreted with her own data.