storytelling

  • Review: Putting Stories to Work and Out On the Wire

    Review: Putting Stories to Work and Out On the Wire

    Two books I’ve read recently make good points about stories that apply to data stories, without the books being about data: Shawn Callahan’s Putting Stories to Work and Jessica Abel’s Out On the Wire.


  • The Season of Storytelling: Kicking It Off With A Podcast

    The Season of Storytelling: Kicking It Off With A Podcast

    It’s (almost) Fall – a good time for telling stories! Jon Schwabish invited me to be on his PolicyViz podcast again to kick off its new season. And I have a long list of things to write about around that topic, too.


  • Paper: Finding a Clear Path: Structuring Strategies for Visualization Sequences

    Paper: Finding a Clear Path: Structuring Strategies for Visualization Sequences

    How should you sequence information in a data story so it makes the most sense? Are some sequences better than others? Does time have to move forward or does it not matter? In a paper to be published at EuroVis next week, with Jessica Hullman at UW and my Tableau Research colleague Heidi Lam, we […]