Occupation: Journalist
I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction of the narrative..
Design has a powerful impact on the viewer. It has authority, and data also has the same air of authenticity and detail. It can be hard to argue with….
If you want to visualize something in its fullness you have to look at every perspective and every angle, and that means - sometimes uncomfortably - ….
Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possibl….
It's enjoyable to just drink in an image. It's effortless. That struck me as an interesting way of looking at it: I do all the grunt work so you can ….
Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil..
Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information ….
I think everyone is struggling somewhat with presentation. The Internet is generally well designed, if you look at the most popular websites, so we e….
What I tend to do is blend quantitative with the qualitative to allow me to plot the qualitative data in some way. It's a question of what quantitati….
I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and narrative of the story. This got me th….
The classic one for me is one of my favorite images - left-versus-right political-spectrum image. I was trying to visualize the concepts on the polit….
I remember researching a really complicated article and having trouble keeping track of all the different perspectives. I ended up drawing a diagram ….
Some of the commercial work I do is helping people to improve their presentations and add some design thinking. There are so many amazing things in s….
I'm happy to provide that service. But that's the power of it. A good infographic that's been really worked on looks simple and easy, but it actually….
We've seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their point. So….
I have a computational quality to my mind, I suppose. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with video games. I reprogrammed games, and this eventually la….
I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects..
I've been working on a graphic about carbon emissions. It's an incredibly simple graphic - a bunch of blocks and a table below it - but it's taken me….
I'm doing a lot of cognitive processing. I'm gathering research. I'm processing it. I'm arranging the data. I'm sorting out the narrative. I'm design….
Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, ….
Sometimes the data has a sense of a structure within it, especially if I'm looking at networks or relationships, which generally lend themselves to a….