Once in a while, I get reader emails asking me to discuss the charting process. I still haven't set pen and paper to that but came across this article which is a good start. Suffice it to say that the responsible "chartist" would have generated all of the figures in this article during the charting process and then picked one (or more) charts that most ably display the key message.
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