Blog 2012

  • New eagereyesTV Video and Series: Chart Appreciation

    New eagereyesTV Video and Series: Chart Appreciation

    Time to breathe new life into my little YouTube channel, which I’m calling eagereyesTV. I’m doing so with the start of a new series I’m calling Chart Appreciation. Each episode will be on one particular visualization, news piece, or interactive. As the first one, I picked Hannah Fairfield’s Driving Safety, in Fits and Starts from […]


  • Four Values Can Still Be Worth A Chart

    Four Values Can Still Be Worth A Chart

    A while ago, Kaiser Fung criticized a chart for its uselessness because it only showed four numbers. The chart appeared on the smart web comic Abstruse Goose (which, as of this writing, is down for a site reorganization).


  • Tapestry, The Conference About Storytelling With Data

    Tapestry, The Conference About Storytelling With Data

    Tapestry is a new conference on storytelling with data. While it focuses on visual ways of telling stories in journalism, there will be a broad range of topics, and a line-up of amazing speakers.