
Don’t Worry Be Happy
This year has been a difficult one for me, personally. My father died at the end of July and my sister died in October. Neither
Explore a collection of Bill’s podcast appearances, interviews, and published articles, where he shares insights on data storytelling, visualization, stakeholder communication, and the craft of making complex ideas make sense.
This year has been a difficult one for me, personally. My father died at the end of July and my sister died in October. Neither
The very last thing you need to think about when developing your data visualization skills is tools. And yet…
Data visualization is a strange career…at least it used to be. As Francis Gagnon said (in this series), “my path to information design is very
Starting today, whenever you get ice cream on what you used to call an ice cream cone, I would like you to call it an
If I suggested that you create a data story out of a dataset of the chemical composition of the dust motes found in the different
My father passed away last week. I can summarize his life in a purely unemotional list of data points. He was 88 years old. He
Data is cold, emotionless, objective, pure, devoid of all emotion. Except, not really, right? Because data is the output of measurements. And those things we
I’ve been at Boston’s Logan Airport for an hour already and my flight doesn’t leave for another two hours. Why? Because of a failure of
On a recent flight, I quickly learned four things about my seat mate:
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