A VIZ APART

"Cathy" wasn't a comic strip for the cool kids. But there are incredibly valuable lessons we can learn from its creator.

They say "don't meet your heroes," because you'll end up disappointed. What they don't say is, sometimes, the opposite just might happen.

When we say "Trust the Process," whose process are we talking about?

In talking with a friend of mine recently, I said something like "I can't imagine why you'd ever make your workbooks not downloadable,...

Did you know that this blog used to have an actual title? I know, the URL was just my handle, and I usually only ever referred to it as...

A harrowing tale I have to tell, my friends in data visualization. A tale for only the hardiest of heart, but a tale needs must be told....

Possibly as early as elementary school, but certainly by middle school, we’ve been introduced to the classic questions that journalists...

I’ll be giving a presentation entitled “You Are an Artist: How and Why to Get Started Making Public Visualizations” at Tableau Conference...

I’ll be giving a presentation entitled “You Are an Artist: How and Why to Get Started Making Public Visualizations” at Tableau Conference...

I’ll be giving a presentation entitled “You Are an Artist: How and Why to Get Started Making Public Visualizations” at Tableau Conference...

In high school, every group of friends has a connector or an alpha, either by being the most charismatic or energetic or something. Drew...

It was nearing the end of Day One at Tableau Conference Europe, and she was inviting me to watch her Tips and Tricks session the...

Quick post here. Could probably be a tweet. But I was just messing around with some old data, testing out a different technique in...

For humor (mostly), I have been known to join in the common refrain that no matter how creative and amazing and groundbreaking the...

We’re all in this dataviz field for different specific reasons, but I’d like to think one commonality among us is the belief in objective...

Has THIS ever HAPPENED to you? You have a nice three-pane Tableau line chart with multiple categories. It's a time-series. You want to...

Famously, Sherlock Holmes makes reference in one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mysteries to "the curious incident of the dog in the...

Before we get started, let me reassure you: this is neither a year in review, nor a "my goals for 2018" post. As a person who still...

Inherent in the idea of remixing or remaking someone's existing, original design--in any milieu--is the conceit that you believe that you...

For most of my career, the main clients of my companies have been government organizations. And, in many cases, the work we did for said...