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There’s nothing wrong with making a graph from a template or solution from a charting library. But, if you are hoping to create a bespoke visual that illustrates your point just so then you’ll need to think a bit more systematically. Frameworks like the Grammar of Graphics guide you through the design process toward an end result that stands out through the forest of bars. Because ultimately, data visualization should inspire communication, not constrain it.,Access to sufficient medical care is limited in much of the world, even in countries with socialized medicine like Canada. But it is particularly limited — and expensive — for Americans. Even before the current pandemic, almost 30 million Americans did not have health insurance. In mid-May, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 27 million Americans had already lost their health insurance following mass layoffs related to the coronavirus.,Cindy and I were not friends, exactly. We were acquaintances who had known each other in middle and high school in suburban Ontario. But we reconnected on Facebook in 2014, when she sent me a friend request shortly before the news of her illness broke. (OneZero is anonymizing Cindy out of respect for her family’s privacy.),As a result, individuals who get sick have turned to digital platforms to scrounge up scarce health care dollars. Instead of demanding funds from insurance companies, or the government, many of the sick plead with those closest to them. A 2016 survey from Pew Research Center found that one in five respondents had donated to a crowdfunding campaign, and that the most common type of donation was to help a friend or family in need. Crowdfunding for chemotherapy or a prosthetic leg is now common.,Cindy’s prognosis quickly worsened, and her close friends and family scrambled to raise funds for experimental medications using platforms like Facebook and GoFundMe. According to the GoFundMe campaign, which was launched in November 2014, “Cindy lost her sight completely, went into organ failure, suffered a massive stroke and as of recently, the nerves in her brain have been affected and leaving her speech impaired.”,I did this on Facebook, where her wisecracking, self-deprecating tone suddenly gave way to a somber third-person announcement that Cindy had been secretly battling chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), a little-known neurological disorder with wide-ranging symptoms.,Since GoFundMe’s founding in 2010, around 250,000 campaigns have been launched to pay for health care costs, a full third of the site’s total campaigns, raising over $650 million in contributions. As far as we know, the vast majority of these campaigns are earnest pleas for help.,She went into seclusion, and pictures showed her in bed at home, wearing a surgical mask with what appeared to be IV tubes attached to her arm. It was noted that CIDP has no known cure, but there was some hope pegged to a very pricey stem cell transplant. The only thing keeping Cindy alive was a cocktail of experimental medications that were not covered by Ontario’s public health care system — sadly, a not uncommon occurrence.,Before her illness was announced, Cindy had been a chronic oversharer. She made jokes about her struggles with weight loss and her inability to nail down a boyfriend, and she invited all of her Facebook friends to her upcoming wedding, where she planned to marry a bag of Jalapeno