This site has been around for over 16 years now, and a lot has changed in the world during that time. I'm currently working on an overhaul and wanted to give …
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Midjourney is a Trip
Of the several AI-powered systems that can create images from text prompts, MidJourney is the most easily accessible one right now. I've had some fun playing …
New video: Gauges for Data Visualization, The NY Times Election Needle, and Circular Bar Charts
Gauges aren't very popular in visualization, but they have some interesting properties. There is, of course, the infamous NY Times "election needle," but you're …
Watch My Outlier Talk: This Should Have Been A Bar Chart!
I gave a talk at the Outlier conference earlier this year, with the somewhat elaborate title, The Joys – and Dangers – of Bespoke and Unusual Chart Types. …
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Paper: More Than Meets the Eye: A Closer Look at Encodings in Visualization
Encodings play a central role in visualization, but I believe our thinking about them is too simplistic. In a new paper, I argue that we need to distinguish …
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The (Possible) Stratagem Behind the Biden Bar
A bar chart with a distorted vertical axis isn't very unusual. But what if that chart was posted by the White House and what if it was done on purpose – not to …
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The NY Times COVID Spiral Is Off-Center
An opinion piece in the New York Times last week got a lot of attention in visualization circles for its use of a spiral chart as its opener. While the choice …
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New Video: The Science of Pie Charts
The common explanation for how pie charts work is that we read them by angle. That of course would mean that donut charts would be bad, because you can't see …
Paper: From Jam Session to Recital: Synchronous Communication and Collaboration Around Data in Organizations
Who are the people who use data and visualization as part of their work every day? In particular, how do people use data as part of meetings, to present to …
EagerEyes Turns 15
EagerEyes is 15 years old today! Rather than look back at 15 years of visualization and blogging (though I will do a little of that too), I want to reflect a …