Who Is Your Chart For?

Applying basic design principles, Part 4: Defining the context and the audience for a data visualization

Erica Gunn
Nightingale
Published in
11 min readDec 14, 2020

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This is the fourth in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article focused on cleaning up the details of chart design. Here, we’ll talk about how to define the audience for your chart.

Black and white photo of a crowd of people
Start by defining the audience that you want to reach. Image source.

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