Bookmarked 50 Hours to Draw Some Lines by Doug MacDowell.
myles braithwaite
May 25, 2026
Doug MacDowell writes about drawing data visualisations completely by hand.
“What are you working on these days?” “Data visualizations.” I told him. “Ah, you using algorithms, machine learning, cloud computing, things like that?” “No.” I said. “I’m just trying to draw a line graph.”
My neighbor thought I was getting into some complex sh**. But what’s been more interesting to me lately than using […] is learning to draw data by hand. 50 Hours to Draw Some Lines is about spending more than a week on something that software can accomplish in 20 minutes - and a catalog of resources and methods acquired along the way.
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