Thursday evening, I posted my little survey and told you all on Twitter that I'm considering writing a book. I got a lot of super nice replies from you all – thank you so much! That's really encouraging (and sometimes encouraging and pressure-increasing).

And SO MANY of you responded to the survey! I got 233 submissions, which made me very excited. Thank you all, again!

Today I read through all the submissions – and I created some ggplot2 plots to better understand what you were telling me. Here are some highlights.

First, the basic stuff. Here's a nice histogram of how proficient in data vis you all think you are on a scale from 0 ("just started yesterday") to 10 ("basically an expert"). I was very happy to get >20 replies from people who feel they're just staring out. (And I got surprised to get replies from 11 people who think of themselves as an expert!)

Over 50% of you create simple charts for articles, reports, presentations, etc.. And few of you are designers or coders; most are writers/journalists, subject experts and data analysts/statisticians.

Interesting to me: Only 10% of you are unhappy with your skills to choose a chart type, while more than a third of you are unhappy with your skills to choose colors:

Btw: The more data vis experience you think you have, the happier you are with your skills to choose a good chart type for your data. Or the other way round: You judge your skills in data vis based (among others) if you can choose chart types well.

That correlation is less visible when it comes to picking good colors and explaining your charts well with text.

Ok, let's get to one of the most interesting parts for me: Which chapter in a color book would you like to read?

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Wa6bb/1/

Lots of you wouldn't mind reading about how to make your data visualizations better-looking and easier to understand with colors. I wonder if I primed you badly there with my Tweet text ("I'm considering writing a book that helps people (like you?) create beautiful, easy-to-read #dataviz.") 😬 Or if it's simply too broad of a description to imagine everything in there.

Oh, and you're not awfully interested in color models and style guide advice.