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<item><title>Line chart — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/line-chart/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/line-chart/</guid><description>Show change through time with a continuous path — the workhorse of reports and science homework.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pie &amp; donut — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/pie-donut/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/pie-donut/</guid><description>A seductive part-to-whole shape — powerful in ads, dangerous when slices multiply.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Scatter plot — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/scatter-plot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/scatter-plot/</guid><description>Two measured variables as a cloud of points — the honest way to talk about correlation.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Heatmap — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/heatmap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/heatmap/</guid><description>A matrix of intensity — dense, seductive, and easy to lie with a rainbow scale.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Waterfall — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/waterfall/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/waterfall/</guid><description>How a total was built — start, pluses, minuses, end. The finance slide that still earns its keep.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Funnel — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/funnel/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/funnel/</guid><description>Stages that shrink — marketing and ads love it; science class should ask whether the widths are honest.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Treemap — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/treemap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/treemap/</guid><description>Hierarchy as nested rectangles — files, budgets and portfolios when a pie would choke.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Flowchart — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/flowchart/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/flowchart/</guid><description>Boxes and arrows for a process — the assignment classic that still runs operations decks.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Org chart — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/org-chart/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/org-chart/</guid><description>Who reports to whom — a tree that can clarify a company or flatten a classroom project.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Mind map — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/mind-map/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/mind-map/</guid><description>A radial dump of ideas — superb for study notes, weak as a finished argument.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Venn diagram — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/venn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/venn/</guid><description>Overlapping sets — a school favourite that ads overuse and analysts should ration.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Timeline — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/timeline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/timeline/</guid><description>Events on a rail of time — history homework, product launches and campaign calendars.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Geometric shapes — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/geometry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/geometry/</guid><description>Circles, squares, triangles, hexagons — the alphabet of ads, icons and worksheets.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Arrows &amp; connectors — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/arrows-connectors/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/arrows-connectors/</guid><description>Direction is an argument — ads, slides and worksheets live or die on the arrow.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Callouts &amp; badges — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/callouts-badges/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/callouts-badges/</guid><description>The shout on the layout — sale badges, comic balloons, numbered steps on a poster.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Infographic blocks — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/infographic-blocks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/infographic-blocks/</guid><description>A page built from tiles — magazines, landing pages and science-fair boards.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Color systems — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/color-systems/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/color-systems/</guid><description>Hue is a tool, not decoration — categorical, sequential and diverging scales for charts and ads.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Data-ink — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/data-ink/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/data-ink/</guid><description>Every pixel should earn its keep — Tufte’s test for reports, and a warning against cute ads.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Accessible viz — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/accessibility/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/accessibility/</guid><description>If it only works in hue, it does not work — patterns, contrast and text that survive greyscale.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Work reports — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/work-reports/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/work-reports/</guid><description>The weekly and quarterly pack — bars, waterfalls and tiles that a manager can read in four minutes.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ads &amp; creative — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/ads-creative/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/ads-creative/</guid><description>Shapes that must work at a glance — badges, arrows, crops and a single number that sells.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>School assignments — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/school-assignments/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/school-assignments/</guid><description>Figures a teacher can mark — labelled axes, a source line, and a chart that matches the question.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pitch decks — Everything About Visualization</title><link>https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/pitch-decks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tool-lifes.com/viz/en/pitch-decks/</guid><description>Ten to fifteen slides that argue — market, wedge, proof, ask. Charts only where they close a beat.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:40:41 GMT</pubDate></item>
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