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 ….

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….

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 ….

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 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..

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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

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 think everyone is struggling somewhat with presentation. The Internet is generally well designed, if you look at the most popular websites, so we e….

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

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….

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….

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….

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression..

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.….

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….

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….