The Problem With Bar ChartsThis post is adapted from a talk I gave as part of a Tableau Users Group meeting called “Bad, Biased, and Baffling Bars.”Jul 161Jul 161
Crossing the KiloPaper Limit: A Trip Report from CHI 2024CHI is the preeminent conference in human-computer interaction, and was held this year in Honolulu, HI. This post is my attempt to…Jun 24Jun 24
Exploratory Data Analysis is Mostly Just Vibes, ManThis blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at CHI 2024, “Odds and Insights: Decision Quality in Visual Analytics” written by…Mar 133Mar 133
The Body Politic: A Sociopolitical Look at Anatomical VisualizationThis blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at CHI 2024, “When the Body Became Data: Historical Data Cultures and Anatomical…Mar 4Mar 4
The Mythos of Visualization Literacy…writing is inferior to speech. For it is like a picture, which can give no answer to a question, and has only a deceitful likeness of a…Feb 21Feb 21
The Othering of HCIWhat gets people into the field of computer science, keeps them there once they are in, and shows up in rosy predictions and imagined…Oct 24, 20231Oct 24, 20231
Raining on Visual Statistics’ Parade?This blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at IEEE VIS 2023, “Fitting Bell Curves to Data Distributions using Visualization”…Oct 23, 2023Oct 23, 2023
Are Dashboards Rude?This blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at IEEE VIS 2023, “Heuristics for Supporting Cooperative Dashboard Design” written by…Oct 18, 2023Oct 18, 2023
“We have visualization everywhere… we should be proud!”: A Trip Report from EuroVis 2023This post is my (perhaps vain) attempt to summarize what I got up at at the EuroVis 2023 conference in Leipzig, Germany. This conference…Jul 25, 2023Jul 25, 2023
What Makes Raincloud Plots Tick?This blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at EuroVis 2023, “Teru Teru Bōzu: Defensive Raincloud Plots.” For more details, read the…Jun 2, 2023Jun 2, 2023