Coming to peace with bar charts

I struggled for years with bar charts. They were a necessary evil — proof that data had been collected and some analysis conducted.

I’ve been challenging myself to make data interesting on Twitter using two techniques:

  1. Create my own images (1024 x 512 pixels or 1024 x 1024 pixels) so I can use more words than the 140 character limit would allow.
  2. Use my tweet to say something related to the data, but not repeating what’s in the image. (In marketing language, this is where you show the world “authentic you.”)

You might think the public health industry could rely on facts to motivate behavioral changes. Nope.

Scientists need stories, too.