This article was co-published with Source. While the tools and techniques to present large datasets in graphics and news apps may differ from project to project, the basic design principles stay ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Because graphic design is meant to present a message in a clear and concise way, the process of actually making it (often a messy and non-linear affair) tends to be wiped from the record. But a new ...