This essay documents the design thinking behind a data story I created in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11: NEIL AND BUZZ GO FOR A WALK. Go enjoy the story. It is best on a big screen like a tablet or monitor (show up with a tiny screen: get a tiny experience). Then come back here for a behind-the-scenes tour.
July 17, 2019 — Comments are off for this post.
NEIL AND BUZZ: Design Essay
November 7, 2018 — Comments are off for this post.
Info We Trust (the book!)
I am so excited to share my most ambitious data adventure yet. It is called INFO WE TRUST: How to inspire the world with data. And it is published by Wiley.
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August 18, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.
Profiling the Parks
October 19, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.
Data City
Data storytelling and the graphic novel are smashed together in one adventure through the numbers behind the city built on numbers: Las Vegas, Nevada. Explore the underside of tourism, gambling, and entertainment as we move through one exciting evening on the Strip.
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May 12, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.
Endangered Safari
The ENDANGERED SAFARI project contains all of the large African mammals along with juicy info like animal size, family, population trend, range, and IUCN threatened species status. The static version, above, is an artsy layout that makes a great print, but to really dig into the data, including individual animal range maps, you will have to jump on a computer (it's not built for mobile) and play with the interactive below by hovering over each Read more
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February 23, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.
BLOOM
one year in a Virginia garden
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Tags: animation, bloom, data adventure, featured, flowers, GIF, infographic, jefferson, monticello, radial time, seasons
March 26, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.
Creative Routines
If you like Creative Routines you will love Info We Trust—the book!
"We all have the same 24 hours that Beyoncé has" and its various iterations took the web by storm in late 2013 as the megastar became the figurehead of not only having it all, but being able to somehow do it all too.
How do creatives - composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers - find the time to produce their opus? Mason Currey investigated the rigid Daily Rituals that hundreds of creatives practiced in order to carve out time, every day, to work their Read more
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Tags: Balzac, Beethoven, Benjamin Franklin, Beyoncé, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Daily Rituals, data adventure, featured, Flaubert, Freud, Gustave Flaubert, history, Immanuel Kant, infographic, John Milton, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Maya Angelou, Mozart, Sigmund Freud, Tchaikovsky, Thomas Mann, Victor Hugo, W.H. Auden
December 31, 2013 — Comments are off for this post.
Disney Characters
Steve Jobs counseled Disney CEO Bob Iger to think in terms of brand deposits and brand withdrawals. Since 1937's Snow White, enduring film characters have been Disney's biggest brand deposits, and their success is most fantastically expressed with a dedicated theme park attraction in Florida at Walt Disney World. Track our favorite magic-maker's Characters by the Numbers:
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Story Points
Several plot points about Disney's evolution can be inferred from Read more
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November 25, 2013 — Comments are off for this post.
USS Constitution: War of 1812
The USS Constitution set itself apart from her sister frigates in the War of 1812 - sailing under three captains through adventures which have forever since made "Old Ironsides" famous. Whether they be heroic victories against HMS Guerriere and HMS Java, or daring escapes, The War of 1812 made the ship the legend we love today.
Follow the Constitution through each major event and port of call - from her return to America in 1812 to the war's end in 1815.
Design
The timeline of action the ship saw is read from left to right. Read more
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October 1, 2013 — Comments are off for this post.
Navigating MIT Course 15
Perhaps it was the chemistry icons of Breaking Bad that drove me to organize the classes of MIT's Course 15 into a handy table. Or maybe it was just reflection on the incredibly knowledge-rich environment of MIT Sloan. For students still taking classes, alumni combing through old notes, and the public digging through MIT's fabulous open courseware (where over 170 management titles are available to all for free), navigate your way though the finest graduate business curriculum around using the Periodic Table of Course 15:
MIT and class names
For the unfamiliar, numbers rule at MIT, and classes are no exception. Read more
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