29 Apr Hooked: Data Visualization and User Motivation
When designing data visualizations, many practitioners focus on what is the right type of chart or visual metaphor to display a particular data set. It certainly makes sense to focus...
Data trends
05 May Architecting the Built Environment of Data
A lot of people ask how we, as architects came to data visualization...
22 Apr Pattern Recognition & Uncanny Data
A recent article in the New York Times cited new research that suggests we are more alert to patterns when we have seen, or experienced, something odd or uncanny. These...
01 Apr Q&A: Dialoguing with your Data
There's a lot of talk about "Easy BI" and "business intelligence for everyone." And for obvious reasons: the current state of the art is hard to use and has required...
14 Mar Designing for Decision-making—not the same as workflow
One of the challenges of the visualization business is that 'visualization' means different things to different people. And naturally, people go with what they know. One of the related areas—and...