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quick advice. If you can't find out any more details, you can at least say you
tried, and make a note of the ambiguity in your explanation of your graphic.
Wrapping up
For beginners, one of the hardest parts to design data graphics is to fig-
ure out where to start. You have all this data in front of you without a clue
about what it is or what to expect. Usually, you should start with a question
about the data and work off of that question, but what if you don't know
what to ask? The methods described in this chapter can help a lot with
this. They help you see all the data at once, which makes it easier to figure
out what part of the data to explore next.
However, don't stop here. Use these as jumping off points to narrow down
to spots that look interesting. This, in addition to what previous chapters
cover should be enough to help you dig deep into your data, no matter what
type of data you deal with. Well, except for one. The next chapter covers
one more data type: spatial data. Get ready to make some maps.
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