Readers were challenged to find a dataset that lends itself to being visualized in radial form, which could include chord diagrams, coxcomb charts, polar area diagrams, radar plots, sunbursts, and more. While not all data is visualized effectively in circular form, there are several examples where a radial chart has been successful. We challenged you to explore, create and share your radial practice in the July 2019 #SWDchallenge.

This month’s challenge was to re-brand a storytelling with data style graph in the style of your choosing. Fifty-eight readers submitted their re-designs with everything from McDonald’s to Vogue to Harry Potter and much, much more! Click to see the entire post and how effective brand can be when it’s thoughtfully incorporated into data storytelling.

Branding applied to data storytelling is much more than a specific font, logo or template color. Instead, thoughtfully incorporating aspects of an organization’s brand into the design of a graph can evoke a feeling or perhaps an emotional connection to the message the graph conveys. This month, readers were challenged to re-brand an example graph in a brand style of their choosing.

If you collected the data, you cleaned the data, you made the choices, you know every reason behind every decision—you are perfectly positioned to analyze that dataset. May brings a guest challenge by Mike Cisneros: visualize data that you’ve curated yourself. Read the post for more details and an example.