Reflections

Over the past several years, I’ve worked with dozens of organizations to help them do a better job communicating their data, analysis, and research. A common problem that occurs early in my conversations is helping people better understand their audience….

I was recently asked to reflect on the current state of the data visualization field and what the next year or so might bring. There are a lot of trends and topics I find really interesting about the data visualization…

This post was originally published on the Urban Institute’s blog, Urban Wire on March 20, 2019. Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Opening Day is less than two weeks away. For fans like me, it’s a glorious day of blue skies, green…

This was the question posed to a group of 15 academic researchers across several social science fields at a recent conference I attended. As a researcher whose role is to help others improve how they communicate their work, I thought…

A few years ago, I had a slew of meetings all in a row where different people kept asking me to help them make a map. “I have some state-level data,” they’d say, “can you help me make a map?”…

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…