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Colour Blindness & Data Visualisation

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In my background of administration, I've dabbled and experimented with formatting documents. I can happily sit at my desk for hours making word or excel documentation look concise and readable, and I always have so much fun making things "pretty" and appealing to the eye. Whether it be colour schemes and gradiation, fonts or even paragraph spacing, it all came naturally to me. When I started my Data Analytics course, I knew for sure that the visualisation aspect of it would pique my interest, and boy was I right. Learning Matplotlib has definitely been one of my favourite topics so far. The way python can make incredibly important graphs and figures seemingly out of thin air blew me away. Not to mention how incredibly powerful it is when combined with Pandas! But with it's power comes great responsibility.  There are a lot of foundational basics regarding the Best Practices and Common Mistakes to matplotlib that are extremely important to understand. Essentially, if a