People who are short on time (i.e., most everyone) have these three questions on their mind, in this order. What’s going on? What does this mean to me? What are we (actually, YOU) going to do about it? The shorthand way of structuring that storyline: What, So What,...

Ever spot those gorgeous graphs in the New York Times or the Washington Post and wish you could make them? You can. And you don't need fancy software to do it. Good graphs, at their core, are based on a few fundamental principles of data visualization design, a...

Well, that just flew by. Ten years ago, I was in the throes of writing my dissertation on Presenting Data Effectively, knowing I had focused on a topic that the world was hungry for, even if they didn’t know it yet. I had collected enough literature and data to know...