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How To Read This Chart

37% data  •  42% visualizations  •  210% jokes

A weekly newsletter about data visualization: what charts show, what they hide, and what they reveal about the world when you know how to look.

Published through The Washington Post and later independently at howtoreadthisch.art, the newsletter at one point reached more than 100,000 readers each week. Each issue took a different corner of public life — politics, weather, sports, culture — and made the numbers legible. The post-Post issues are linked below.

28 issues