Smooth and Striated Data VisualizationOr: The Chart and RevolutionJun 13A response icon1Jun 13A response icon1
Tikkun Olam: A Trip Report from CHI 2025I recently returned from CHI 2025, the largest academic conference on human-computer interaction (HCI), held this year in Yokohama, Japan…May 21May 21
The Ubiquity of Tentacularity: Exploring Octopus MapsThis blog post accompanies a paper to be presented at CHI 2025, “The Many Tendrils of the Octopus Map” written by Eduardo Puerta, Shani…Feb 6A response icon2Feb 6A response icon2
Hell is Other ReviewersYou can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.Jan 2Jan 2
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin: A Trip Report from IEEE VIS 2024The following is my trip report from IEEE VIS 2024, the premier conference in data visualization research, held virtually, for reasons I…Nov 18, 2024Nov 18, 2024
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 16, 2024A response icon1Jul 16, 2024A response icon1
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 24, 2024Jun 24, 2024
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 13, 2024A response icon3Mar 13, 2024A response icon3
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 4, 2024Mar 4, 2024
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 21, 2024Feb 21, 2024
