Zan·Mar 15, 2020Be as Cautious as Possible for the next 14 daysThis is the letter I wrote to family and friends this morning. Within 20 minutes I’d gotten texts from my friend who is an ER doctor and…
Zan·Sep 19, 2018A Sampling of Data VisualizationI wrote this originally for students studying CS at Burton High School in San Francisco, but figured I’d post on Medium to have the chance…
Zan·Apr 16, 2018Open Data SourcesI recently taught a lesson on data visualization to a class of CS students at Lowell High School in San Francisco. One question was about…
Zan·Nov 1, 2017Story Behind the Viz: The Baby SpikeWhen you first look at the visualization below, what do you notice first? The big spike? The colors? The shape? Something else?A response icon1A response icon1
Zan·Jun 15, 2017Part II: One set of data, many storiesOr, why a dual y-axis chart is not a normalized delta chart
Zan·Apr 3, 2017One set of data, many storiesIn March 2017, Brookings Institute put out a paper by Case & Deaton on Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century.
InHi.StamenbyZan·Jul 27, 2016The Shapes of EmotionsOne of the core visualizations in the Atlas of Emotions shows the range of states of each of the 5 emotions (anger, fear, disgust, sadness…A response icon3A response icon3
Zan·Jun 7, 2016Why choose? Scrollytelling & Steppers“Scrollytelling” is an online storytelling technique in which more and more content is revealed as the user scrolls down the page.A response icon3A response icon3
InHi.StamenbyZan·Apr 6, 2016Exploring the Amazon with Code and DataA project with Stamen and National Geographic
Zan·May 8, 2014Trouble, cunning, and a fighting spirit — the key to visualizing datatreasures from the past: Anscombe
