Design

Data can be fact and analytical. It can help you make objective decisions.…

John Nelson has a knack for making maps that glow, where the base…

Missing data is everywhere. Or, I guess technically it’s nowhere. You know what…

In a 2005 paper “If I look at the mass I will never…

My whole career is a side project.

There is visualization in practice and there is visualization in theory and research.…

Naturally occurring visualization in the physical world.

Our daily lives are full of bias. We make assumptions about how the…

Robert Simmon provides a hands-on guide to get true color from satellite imagery.…

The arguments over pie charts dates back to 1914.

Scale circles by area or by how they are actually perceived?

On the PolicyViz podcast, Kim Rees of Periscopic and Mushon Zer-Aviv of Shual…

A quantitative look at which US grid layout is best.

It must be that time of year again when practitioners try to define visualization. It’s a medium. It’s continuous.

It’s true. Sometimes it’s okay for the y-axis to start at a non-zero…

The NPR Visuals team tracked user activity on their visual stories to see how people read or didn’t.

More than you ever thought you wanted to know about hexagonal grids.

Sifting out some of the styles of contemporary data visualization.

Ask yourself what the numbers represent.

Simple and surprisingly challenging.