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Videos from the 2014 Visualized conference in New York City were posted late last week. Shortly after the conference last January, I wrote 8 separate posts summarizing my observations about data, storytelling, aesthetics, and other aspects of data visualization and…

Last week I participated in the Thinking With Your Eyes (#thinkeyes2014) visualization symposium at Harvard University. The purpose of the meeting was to explore the uses of data visualization across different disciplines and research methods. Researchers from such varied fields…

My last post about the Visualized conference. I hope you have enjoyed reading these posts over the last week. For me, Visualized was a refreshing change of pace from my usual economics conference experience where presenters typically fail to consider the needs…

Presentation authors and coaches often advise speakers to tell personal stories because it helps connect the presenter with the audience. Visualized conference speakers were effective at doing so, with Kim Rees talking about growing up interested in data and numbers,…

My favorite session of Visualized was with Jeff Norris, Alexander Chen, Cedric Kiefer, and Santiago Ortiz. All four are doing fabulous, mesmerizing work. Jeff Norris is experimenting with immersive technologies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion laboratory to improve how scientists use…

If you follow my work, or have attended my workshops, you know that I spend a lot of time trying to help people improve their basic chart types by encouraging them to show their data, reduce chart clutter, and integrate…

My article on data visualization for economists was published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives the day before Visualized. I received a lot of positive feedback about it; the ones I most appreciated were those from professors who told me…

How do we get people to connect with the large, and sometimes abstract, numbers we are trying to communicate? I’ll be talking about this very topic at next week’s Tapestry conference in Annapolis, MD, but it came up a few…

A little over a week ago, I attended the Visualized conference in New York City. The two-day event highlighted designers, programmers, artists, scientists, and journalists who are transforming how we learn and interact with our world through data. I took…