This past year, I wrote an article that required all the vulnerability and bravery I had that whole month. It was about being a woman in data visualization and some (just some) of the shit that has come with it. It was exhausting to recall the experiences I discussed...

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...