Designing dbt Charts · Senior Principal Data Graphics Designer & Engineer · Author of Info We Trust · Chartography

San Francisco
Joined September 2013
Lovely pie-chart cover just arrived from Japan! 統計グラフの画き方, How to Draw Statistical Graphs (1936, this is the 1939 ed.).
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PACKED with Henry Gannett charts! Census of the Philippines islands, 1903.
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beautiful handmade bump chart, early 1940s
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RJ Andrews retweeted
This striking 1895 geologic map of the region around Great Smoky Mountains National Park includes six geologic cross-sections to provide rich details of the landscape. Take a closer look here: loc.gov/item/99446177/?loclr…
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I went looking for one Japanese chart book and ended up with 19 prewar volumes, a new collecting method, and a stronger conviction that graphic history is far from fully known.
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The right size and color and composition. Culture-specific design uniqueness, often wonderfully weird.
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Every network chart in Semiotic can now be isometric. I'm in my Zaxxon Phase of my data visualization journey. semiotic.nteract.io/examples…
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Someone gave me $1,000 to build them a data-graphics library and they now have the second-best collection in San Francisco.
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My 2025 New York show did not feel special to me as much as it felt natural. The best way to consume data might not be alone on a pocket screen—but together, in conversation, with human-sized artifacts.
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“Information graphics is a craft—a coordination of hand, eye, head, and heart—that expands understanding and empowers action.”
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Web crawlers /[•]\ #js x #css
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The defensive distrust we developed toward unknown callers and unsolicited emails has now seeped to images and videos. What content is still trustworthy on the Internet? Shared docs and virtual meetings?
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Funnel chart vs. Sankey chart (with apologies to @Elijah_Meeks)
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Cartographers don’t say geo-visualization or geo-graphic. They say MAP. I don’t know why we bother with "data visualization" when we can just say CHART.
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XL statistical atlas has arrived from Poland RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA ATLAS STATYSTYCZNY (1930)
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Joyful colors that are even brighter in person! PDF of this atlas here: mbc.cyfrowemazowsze.pl/Conte…
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I use this image when teaching line graphs, emphasizing how abstract curves are compared with bars.
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