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..

If you want to visualize something in its fullness you have to look at every perspective and every angle, and that means - sometimes uncomfortably - ….

I remember researching a really complicated article and having trouble keeping track of all the different perspectives. I ended up drawing a diagram ….

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil..

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….

For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized that, really, it's pretty easy.….

Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, ….

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….

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 ….

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….

Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possibl….

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..

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 ….

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….

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….

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in infor….

There's a tendency in graphics to allow the trimming of certain parts. But I think that if you're open about your process, your methodology, such as ….

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 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….

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….

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….