exploration

Simon Willison asked a straightforward question about the tools people use:
If someone…

Thinking about the tiny steps along the way to making a chart, even a relatively straightforward one.

Feeding off the words of John Tukey, Roger Peng proposes a search for…

Simone Giertz, bringer of joy and self-described expert in shitty robots, makes machines…

Statistician John Tukey, who coined Exploratory Data Analysis, talked a lot about using…

So you have your data neat and tidy in a single spreadsheet, and…

When we make charts and graphs, we usually think of the data abstractions…

With Google’s recent data-related offerings, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise…

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice…