https://medium.economist.com/why-you-sometimes-need-to-break-the-rules-in-data-viz-4d8ece284919
Why you sometimes need to break the rules in data viz
Best practices help us to avoid common pitfalls in data visualisation — but we shouldn’t follow them blindly
Rosamund Pearce
Feb 28, 2020
“It’s easy to visualise data badly…. To combat such crimes, a number of best practices have sprung up as the field of data visualisation has matured…. The trouble is that best practices tend to have little nuance, and there are times when they may be irrelevant, or worth the cost of breaking.”