View on Zencastr In this episode, I sit down with Bill Rankin, historian of science at Yale and author of Radical Cartography, to unpack what maps really do beyond simply showing data. We talk about why mapping is an act…
View on Zencastr In this week’s episode, I interview Natalia Kisileva about her transition from engineering to data visualization and her work in data art and physicalization. We discuss her great Substack newsletter “Flowers and Numbers” and how she shifted…
Tomas Pueyo is the author of Uncharted Territories, a newsletter where he tries to deeply understand how the world works to understand where it’s going and nudge it in the right direction. He became world viral with his COVID articles,…
Ellie Balk is an artist obsessed with color, pattern, data and mathematics. She creates large scale data visualization public artworks using paint, glass, sound and most recently ceramics. Community engagement and interaction is at the core of her work. Ellie…
Update (12/13/19): The video of my talk for SAGE Ocean for which these slides are based, is now available. A couple of weeks ago, I published 4 Observations on Animating Your Data Visualizations on the Urban Institute’s Data at Urban…
Don’t let people fool you. PowerPoint, like Prezi, Keynote, and others is—for better and for worse—a tool. It doesn’t matter whether it was developed by a big, bureaucratic software company or whether it has been used poorly by (countless) others,…
People who work with and communicate data tend to throw around the words “story” and “data” a lot these days. We say all too regularly, “Let’s tell a story with these data” or “What story do these data tell us?”…
Far too many presenters pack their slides with far too much information: text, bullet points, graphs, data markers, data labels, and collections of images. This information-dump encourages the audience to read the slides and spend less time listening to you…
This post was originally published on PresentationXpert blog. For people presenting scientific or technical information, there are often specific tables and numbers they wish to show: Descriptive data, summary statistics and regression results, for example. Sometimes those details need to…
