I see a lot of visualization around me now and I am extremely excited about it. Yet, are we making any real difference? I mean, are we having any real impact in people’s life other than telling them beautiful stories? Yes I know, impact could be defined in a million different ways and it may [...]
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Being a visualization researcher means a very large body of my work revolves around pushing the boundaries of visualization further. I do that by mostly developing innovative techniques but also trying to better understand how humans interact with this amazing tool we call visualization. You might think I have at least a rough idea of what progress [...]
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I was reading the description of a new data visualization contest coming out today, the Nielsen Data Visualization Contest, and an apparently insignificant sentence caught my attention: “The challenge is to make data tell a story, conveying what’s most important effectively and efficiently.” There is a lot of attention lately around using visualization to “tell [...]
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As promised yesterday here is the answer I received from Visualizing after sending them a draft of my post. Given their answer and the whole bunch of controversial but constructive comments I received (check them out, they are full of insights) I am really glad to have started this. I have the feeling this can in a [...]
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“Huston we have a problem …” I just received this in my inbox: We want to again express our sincerest gratitude for your help in making the Visualizing Marathon 2011 such a resounding success. Your participation was instrumental and the 376 students who competed in Sydney, São Paulo, New York, London, and Berlin told us [...]
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Yesterday I wrote this on twitter: “I must confess I very rarely read data visualization blogs, most are depressingly predictable and shallow.” Yes, it’s not the nicest sentence I could write, but it’s true: most data visualization blogs suck. They do not inform, they do not entertain. At VisWeek, last month, we organized a pretty [...]
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I wanted to title this post “giving constructive feedback about visualization and its long-lasting effect” but it didn’t sound as good as this one. The Story I was about to write my next long post (don’t worry, almost done) when I received an email from a guy working for Hotels.com: “Hope you’re well. I’ve seen you’ve covered [...]
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Oh gosh, I was almost going to miss it: Fell in Love with Data turns one! One year has passed and so many things happened in the meantime. Where do I start? Well, let me start with the obvious but important: Thanks to all of you guys who are reading, commenting, re-tweeting, sending messages, etc. You [...]
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A few days after my post on indispensable visualization I received an email from Prof. Georges Grinstein (what an honor! he is one of the fathers of visualization) asking for explanations about my use of the word “visualization consumerism”. I defined visualization consumerism as visualizations found on the web, used solely for communication purposes: mostly [...]
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(This blog post is the result of a talk a gave a few days ago at Visualizing Europe. You can give a look to the program, you can give a look to my slides directly, or you can see a preview of the pictures taken during the event. Also, this is a quite long post, I [...]
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