Over the last year or so, I’ve spent almost as much time thinking about how to teach data visualization as I’ve spent working with data. I’ve been a teacher for 10 years – for better or for worse this means that as I learn new techniques and concepts, I’m usually thinking about pedagogy at the [...]
Yesterday, I tweeted a quick thought that I had, while walking the dog: A few people asked me to expand on this, so let’s give it a try: We are facing a very different data-related problem today than we were facing only a few years ago. Back then, the call was solely for more information. [...]
I was asked at the end of last week to produce a graphic for the Opinion page today – the idea was to compare the texts of various ‘state of the union’ addresses from around the world. The final result (pictured above) is not extraordinarily data-heavy. It worked quite nicely in the printed layout, where [...]
I was very much moved by Maggie Steber’s photo essay in The New York Times, titled ‘No End of Trouble. Ever.‘ The essay talks about Haiti’s violent history, and of the countries incredible tendency towards misfortune: “How can nature or God or the fates or the universe do this to a country that has borne [...]
