Reflections

Well, my week of data and story posts has come to an end. And today I head off to Pamplona, Spain for what I expect will be an incredible and exhausting week at the Malofiej Infographic World Summit. I’ll be…

So far in this series of posts on stories, I’ve discussed the definition of story, story structure, and applying data to story structure. In this final post, I look at the differences between analyzing data and talking to people and…

In my last couple of posts, I discussed my definition of story and story structure. As people engaged with data and trying to visualize those data, we often say, “Let’s tell a story with these data,” and in the end, we…

Once upon a time, there was _____. Every day, _____. One day, _____. Because of that, _____. Because of that, _____. Until finally_____. This is just one of the famous 22 Rules of Storytelling from Pixar, shared by Pixar Story…

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?”…

In this season of thanks, I thought I’d write a reflections kind of post. Recently, I had the fortunate opportunity to speak to a number of undergraduate students about their future career decisions: Should they go directly to graduate school?…

One of the early data visualization best practices I was interested in learning more about was how and where to place my vertical axis labels. It seems like a simple, basic aspect of data visualization design. Most default software programs rotate…