Web App Master’s Tour
This year I’ll be presenting at the Web App Master’s Tour, along with many other brilliant folks. Come see us in Philadelphia March 21-22, Seattle May 23-24, or Minneapolis June 27-28. Save $100 off...
View ArticlePodcast with Jared Spool
Jared Spool interviewed me for Brain Sparks. It’s a 30 minute podcast; the title is Steps to Beautiful Visualizations. Update: there’s a mostly-accurate transcript available as well.
View ArticleUIE Virtual seminar podcast
Here’s the podcast and transcript that goes with my virtual seminar on visualization for UIE. In this podcast I talk a lot about basic visualization concepts, with some good Q&A. It’s good...
View ArticleHow to buy a practical bike
Last summer I gave a talk at Ignite Seattle on how to buy a practical bike. This is the slide deck for that talk. There’s no audio, but you can gather most of it from the images. The summary is below...
View ArticlePresenting at Strata
I’ll be speaking at Strata NY next week. My main talk is Designing Data Visualizations, on Friday the 23rd at 11:30am. I’ll also be presenting at the Visualization Showcase Tuesday evening, and at...
View ArticleNew book: Designing Data Visualizations
I’m thrilled to announce my latest book, Designing Data Visualizations. The goal of this book is to teach you the process of designing a visualization, presenting the important considerations, and...
View ArticleA quick redesign of useless graphs
After seeing a poor infographic re-posted, I briefly ranted on twitter: Terrible presentation of data. The bars are OK, the rest is worthless. http://bit.ly/o76BOm @litmusapp #fb #li I don’t mean to be...
View ArticleProperties and Best Uses of Visual Encodings
Here’s my table of properties and best uses of visual encodings. Feel free to download the PDF.
View ArticleTalks: first half of 2012
Here are the various, videos, recordings, transcripts, notes, and slide decks from some of the talks I gave in the first half of 2012. With one exception, all of these are free to view or download....
View ArticleProcess notes handout
Here are some visualization process notes from my talks and tutorials.
View ArticleUnbroken Excel
Because I mention it all the time, here’s Cole Nussbaumer‘s template for good Excel graphs, where she’s fixed all of the bad Excel defaults.
View ArticleFour Pillars of Visualization
I’ve been creating a lot of content based on my Four Pillars of Visualization design principles. The Four Pillars are: Purpose (the why) Content (the what) Structure (the how) Formatting (everything...
View ArticleVisualization errors to avoid
I wrote a blog post on avoiding visualization errors over at Information Week.
View ArticleHow to pick a graph
I just tweeted this: Step 5: What graph do I use? 4: What data matters? 3: What Q’s need answering? 2: What actions do I need to inform? 1: What do I care about?
View ArticleMapping Migration critique
A friend asked me what I thought about the NYT Mapping Migration visualization. It’s interesting that they note this is a new (experimental) kind of visualization; frankly I think it doesn’t work very...
View ArticleGuaranteed Successful Design talk
Here’s a fun and useful lightning talk I gave at Startupfest Montreal 2016 entitled Guaranteed Successful Design. I hope you like it.
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