Getting people excited about their data one visual at a time
Readers: The other day on Twitter, Albert Cairo tweeted about a great visual map he found in a 1938 issue of Fortune Magazine at Steve Heller’s Moving Sale on Saturday, June 28th, 2014 in New York City. Steve Heller Steven Heller wears many hats (in addition to the New York Yankees): For 33 years he…
Read more Steve Heller, Alberto Cairo, and The World in Terms of General Motors
Data, Patternicity, and Biases Last Wednesday, Alberto Cairo gave a keynote presentation at the Tapestry conference. The day after (Thursday), he spoke at the Investigative Reporters and Editors meeting (CAR2014.) In both talks Alberto discussed some topics that are concerning him. Mr. Cairo is considered by many (including me) to be one of the industry’s leading experts…
Read more Tapestry Conference 2014: Alberto Cairo’s Keynote Presentation
I continue to showcase some of the beautiful work done by students who attended Professor Cairo’s Introduction to Infographics and Visualization MOOC course in October 2013 that just completed. This one is to showcase a redesign assignment by Andrei Ciobanu. Andrei chose to arrange criteria in columns in order to make numbers comparable. Here was…
Read more MOOC DataViz Showcase #4: Who’s Buying What ? (Andrei Ciobanu)
I continue to showcase some of the beautiful work done by students who attended Professor Cairo’s Introduction to Infographics and Visualization MOOC course in October 2013 that just completed. This one is to showcase is a redesign assignment by Jose Rodríguez. Here is Jose’s explanation of his redesign. In the review of “Who is buying…
Read more MOOC DataViz Showcase #3: Who’s Buying What ? (Jose Rodríguez)
I continue to showcase some of the beautiful work done by students who attended Professor Cairo’s Introduction to Infographics and Visualization MOOC course in October 2013 that just completed. The one is to showcase is a redesign assignment by Kamila Zhussupova. Here is Kamila’s explanation of her redesign. Hi, this is my variant of the infographic…
Read more MOOC DataViz Showcase #2: Who’s Buying What ? (Kamila Zhussupova)
Readers: As I did when I originally attended Professor Cairo’s Introduction to Infographics and Visualization MOOC course last January, I am showcasing some of the beautiful work done by his current students in the October 2013 class that just completed. The first one I am going to showcase is a redesign assignment by Julien Hennequart. Julian…
Read more MOOC DataViz Showcase #1: Who’s Buying What ? (Julien Hennequart)
Critiquing Data Visualizations I attended an online webinar today hosted by Data Science Central titled Making Flow Happen: Dashboards that Persuade, Inform, and Engage. The presenter was Jeff Pettiross (photo, right) from Tableau Software. I found Jeff’s presentation to be very informative and helpful, but it was the Q&A session afterwards that I thought brought an…
