dataviz for everyone

some assumptions:

• you're building for the web (not a native app, or something else)
• you're using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (not Flash or Objective-C or some other awful thing)

four basic approaches

• html
• svg
• canvas
• img

“But using a static image feels like cheating...”

“If you ain’t trying to cheat a little, you ain’t likely to win much.” — Richard Petty

there is "The Way"

or you can find "a way"

credit to James Fallows for this

problem children:

• labels
• legends
• hover
• interaction
• tables
• wide graphics on a small screen (histograms, etc)
• forms