I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be holding a special, two-day data visualization workshop on November 6th and 7th here in Washington, DC. Over the past year or so, I have taught a number of public data visualization workshops. The workshops provide…
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Last week, I wrote a post on Visually about the conceptual and design process behind The Graphic Continuum. In this post, I want to share some of the sources of inspiration for the project. I developed The Graphic Continuum with…
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For more than a year, I’ve been working on-and-off on a project I call The Graphic Continuum. It’s my view of the many different types of visualizations available to us when we encode and present data. In some ways, it’s a…
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Yesterday, I critiqued a revision of an existing slide deck where I claimed that some of the design choices and text elements could be significantly improved. As someone who spends time thinking, writing, and teaching how to give great presentations,…
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A few weeks ago, I came across an older blog post describing a suggested redesign of a slide presentation. As someone interested in helping researchers and analysts improve their presentation slides, I felt that some of the redesign decisions were poorly…
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You want to increase your skills when it comes to creating effective, captivating, and informative data visualizations. I want to teach you. But with this, comes certain challenges. It is these challenges that I hope to discuss in a SXSW…
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On Saturday, I head to the west coast for 11 days–the first week in San Francisco and then a few days in Seattle. That’s a long time to be away from my family, but it’s an amazing opportunity to be…
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I co-authored this post with Bryan Connor of The Why Axis fame. This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s Urban Wire blog. It might be the case that maps are the most data-dense visualizations. Consider your basic roadmap: it includes road types (highways, toll…
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This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s Urban Wire blog I had a hard time visually picking out the story in a simple chart published by the Financial Times earlier this week. There was nothing special or particularly complex about the…
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This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s MetroTrends blog. One of the hot buzzwords in data visualization these days is “storytelling”: telling stories with data, using visualization to help tell stories,…stories, stories, stories. But no one, it seems, has…
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