Info needed, STAT!

Or rather, stat info needed.

With this series I'm writing for now, in addition to the manuscript, I also
have to provide rough sketches for a minimum of 16 visuals. Sounds simple
enough, except I'm so terrible at drawing that no one will play Pictionary
with me. It isn't so bad, though, because no fancy illustrations are
required; it's mostly charts, graphs, and the like. But this experience has
taught me two things: (1) I absolutely love doing it; and (2) I absolutely
suck at doing it.

My problem is, somewhere along the line I never learned how to do this. I
don't have the innate ability to take my data, envision the right type of
bar graph, pie chart, line graph, or whatever, and then draw it. So what I'm
reduced to is finding visuals that have already been done and using them as
a guide. It works okay most of the time, but I don't want to keep doing
that. I want to learn the process of creating them myself.

I did some googling but the sites I found were either designed by
statisticians or *for* statisticians, and they only left me feeling more
confused. Anyone know a good resource for this -- one that's actually
designed to teach the process?

Thanks much.

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PJ


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