Continuing my lazy-man blogging, I sat down with my colleague Ben Chartoff last week for 15 minutes to talk about our mutual dislike for maps-as-data-visualization. I’ve posted links and images to the things we mentioned below (and apologies to Brandon Martin-Anderson,…
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In early September, Severino Ribecca and I released a poster-sized version of The Graphic Continuum, a collection of the wide array of visualization types. In it, we plotted over 80 different graphics across six main categories: Distribution, Time, Comparing Categories, Geospatial,…
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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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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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The Visualized conference started out as a rah-rah for data storytelling. But in a surprise visit, Kim Rees (who was in NYC for less than 48 hours, if I’m not mistaken) threw some cold water on the cheerleading, arguing that…
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Today marks the expansion of PolicyViz. The front page will no longer contain details about my data visualization and presentation techniques workshop. Instead, I’ll focus my efforts on writing about those same issues. I will continue to offer workshops on…
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