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I have an interesting goal, much like Duncan's money one, but I approach it differently. I establish an amount of money that I'm comfortable with achieving for the year. It's usually what pays all my recurring bills, plus a nice bonus for myself. That's always the target, every year. The trick is that each subsequent year I manage to reach the goal a bit earlier, just because of experience, getting better known, better networking, etc. This means that each year, I give myself a larger stretch of time to work on personal projects, or just go on vacation. It is a neat way of not necessarily "earning less", but making enough to be able to give myself 3 months off of client work. :)

Loved it! On the Pie Chart debate, I am team #StopPieChartHate too! I even mentioned the same thing on a live I did last week! I am too curious for my own good, so I did a little bit of investigation. I traced it back to Stephen Few's Show Me The Numbers, chapter 12 is titled "Silly Graphs That Are Best Foresaken" and it is basically a long rant about how much he dislikes charts that utilise a round axis, aren't bars or tables. Pies, Donuts, Sunbursts, Radar Graphs, even Bubble Charts - which are essentially just scatterplots - get his wrath! He also doesn't like pictograms of any kind and has a lot to say about waffles, funnels and waterfalls. This is the oldest book in the field I have found to have a chapter dedicated to berate *chart types*, instead of *bad uses* of certain chart types. By the time his second edition was released, he already was a behemoth in the dataviz field and what I notice is that a lot of this discourse is about repeating what other big names say, instead of stopping and assessing if those points are valid... His hate on certain chart types borders the comical sometimes. Here's a quite funny excerpt from the chapter: "A donut chart is a pie with a hole in the middle. Both pie and donut charts attempt to display parts of a whole. If pies are graphical pastries filled with empty calories, donut charts are the same, and more. (...). The donut chart is one that people are tempted to use because it's cute. Software vendors make donut charts enticing enough to eat, but they'll still leave you empty." [adds an example of a 3D donut chart with 4 slices of aaaaaalmost the same size, nearing 25% but not quite, to get the point across].

I just want to say I love listening to these chats.

love chartist 😂 - someone told me they were a "data visualist" recently and thought that was cool.

One thing to add here (and my current struggle with my own portfolio) is that when your work in under NDAs (like working for bigger corporations, under contract or as a freelancer to fill in for spot data viz work in a corporate environment), you can't show your work, even if it's exciting and cool. Sometimes you can't even mention you worked for them on your website/portfolios (think government agencies with very private data). In these cases it is hard to display client work. It doesn't mean no one wants to hire you, and it also doesn't mean you aren't senior at what you do, but you may end up with a portfolio that has more personal than client work.