I write about data visualization at Data and Dragons. Some recent highlights:
Glass Benches: Minimalism and Genre in Data Visualization (rethinking the data-ink ratio, published 9/24/19)
Featured on Data Elixir
Profiling Protest Data, or, what I did on my summer vacation (published 9/10/19)
Coping with Minard’s Non-Euclidean Geography (learning from historical flow maps, published 8/27/19)
Communicating with Chaos (when precise quantities aren’t the point, published 8/19/19)
Featured in the Global Investigative Journalism Network’s Top 10 for August 19-25
Working For The Marrow: A Review of Info We Trust (published 3/11/19)
Left (Or Right) This Way: Pinpointing Change with Hedgehog Maps (published 3/8/19)
Featured in Andy Kirk’s Best of the Visualization Web for March 2019
Featured in the Global Investigative Journalism Network’s Top 10 for March 4-10
Spinning The Concrete Dial With Hypothetical Outcome Plots (uncertainty in visualization, published 1/28/2019)
Featured in Andy Kirk’s Best of the Visualization Web for January 2019
Featured in Flowing Data
The Lamppost: On Deciding To Give A Damn (why I care about data visualization, published 1/14/2019)
Mercy On Our Minds: Lightening Cognitive Load with the Known-New Contract (borrowing from rhetoric to sequence visualizations, published 11/27/2018)
Sword Graphs Part I: Self-Encoding and Sword Graphs Part II: Abstraction in Self-Encoding (images that represent themselves, plus pirates, published 10/29/2018 and 11/5/2018)
Time and Space (humanizing data visualization, published 10/5/2018)
An Accounting (reflections on visualizations made in the Kovno Ghetto in 1941, published 9/15/2018)