When you’re speaking in front of an audience, you’re almost always using a microphone. The point of the microphone is to help your audience hear you. But it can’t do that if you don’t know how to use it or if you actively work against it.
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Vis Potpourri, October 2017
A potpourri isn't usually structured, since it's supposed to be thrown together and mixed. But this one has a section on reports from this year's VIS conference, plus various miscellaneous items like a tool to explore a brain atlas, some history on spreadsheets, and a celebration of Archer, among other things.
ISOTYPE Book: Florence, Only An Ocean Between
The book Only An Ocean Between by Lella Secor Florence contains some of the most iconic ISOTYPE charts. It was published in 1943, as part of a small series called America and Britain.
Portrait: Danielle Albers Szafir
Danielle Albers Szafir received the Best Paper award for her single-author paper, Modeling Color Difference for Visualization Design at InfoVis this year. She is assistant professor at University of Colorado Boulder and runs the CU VisuaLab there.
Starter Pack
Some essentials to get you started on this site.
ZIPScribble Map
What happens when you connect all the ZIP codes in the U.S. in order? It's a surprising and interesting pattern. Explore yourself!
Pie Charts
Think you know pie charts? Here's an overview, tips&tricks, and cutting-edge research on the chart everybody loves to hate.
Techniques
Bar charts, pie charts, parallel coordinates, Venn diagrams, … What are they? How do they work? Which one do you use for what?
Papers
When I publish scientific papers, I write about them here. There's research on visualization techniques, perception, and other topics.
Calendar
eagereyes has been around for a bit! This interactive calendar lets you explore more than ten years' worth of content.