Just a reminder of my newsletter, available in ENGLISH and SPANISH . Let's continue the conversation there!
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I've just launched a newsletter in both ENGLISH and SPANISH . I'll keep posting on this blog, but if you want to get regular updates, follow me there. Here's the FIRST INSTALLMENT : MATURITY ...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2024/03/newsletter-in-english-and-spanish.html
Eldiario.es, an independent online newspaper based in Madrid, has just published a remarkable DATA-DRIVEN STORY about how inequality perpetuates itself (perhaps we should say that it's inflicte...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/12/spains-eldiarioes-visualizes-how.html
I've recently appeared in a few podcasts to talk about The Art of Insight, ALLI TORBAN'S DATAVIZ TODAY , ZACH BOWDER'S DATA+LOVE , and Cole Nussbaumer's STORYTELLING WITH DATA —hosted this...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/11/podcast-interviews.html
I've been so busy this year with THE ART OF INSIGHT that I hadn't heard that MONA CHALABI had won a PULITZER PRIZE FOR ILLUSTRATED REPORTING . Well deserved. Here's A RECENT INTERVIEW WITH HE...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/11/an-interview-with-mona-chalabi.html
Some lines that I've just sent to a reporter: The Art of Insight is my most personal book to date, a tribute to the people who design infographics and data visualizations to make the world a mo...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/11/something-ive-just-sent-to-reporter.html
NICK DESBARATS is a visualization educator and consultant who has a new book coming out on November 15, PRACTICAL CHARTS . This is the exact same official publication date for The Art of Insight...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/11/a-conversation-with-nick-desbarats.html
I've just received my advance copies of THE ART OF INSIGHT and I'm happy to report that it looks quite nice thanks to the good folks at WILEY . (Publication date is November 15th; if you PRE-OR...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/11/the-art-of-insight-has-arrived.html
Quick news: The Art of Insight will be released on November 15, but you can PREORDER it now, and you can also get a NICE PREVIEW OF DOZENS OF PAGES through Google Books. I'll be ramping up pr...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/09/read-part-of-art-of-insight-now.html
I've just written the last line of THE ART OF INSIGHT . Now begins the long process of copy-editing and production that will finish on November 15, 2023, its publication date. The Art of Insigh...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/06/ive-just-finished-writing-art-of-insight.html
In just a month I'll send last third of The Art of Insight to my publisher, Wiley; the PUBLICATION DATE IS STILL NOVEMBER 14 THIS YEAR . If you want to get a glimpse of what my quirkiest, most ...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/05/early-blurbs-for-art-of-insight.html
TAMARA MUNZNER and I are the co-editors of CRC Press's AK PETERSONS VISUALIZATION SERIES . We've got plenty of great books published recently, so we decided to record some casual conversati...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/03/crc-press-visualization-videocast.html
Today I'm working on the chapter of THE ART OF INSIGHT devoted to DENIZ CEM ÖNDUYGU . Deniz is the author of an impressive MNEMONIC INTERACTIVE DIAGRAM of influential philosophers. He design...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/03/playing-with-chatgpt-while-writing-art.html
Yesterday I announced in social media that I've written half of THE ART OF INSIGHT already. It should be out by late November this year. Some people asked how it's different to my previous books...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/02/what-art-of-insight-is-about.html
In the past few years I've become increasingly alarmed about how journalists cover the transgender community, particularly transgender youth. Being interested in graphics, I decided to record the...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/02/how-we-lie-to-ourselves-with-charts.html
I'm working on the chapter of THE ART OF INSIGHT about ProPublica's LENA GROEGER . Here's the first rough draft of the opening paragraphs: > In the Fall of 2014 Lena Groeger, the grap...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/02/visualization-thought-leaders-dont-know.html
A week ago a large number of New York Times contributors and tens of thousands of their readers SIGNED AN OPEN LETTER criticizing the newspaper's coverage of youth gender-affirming care. I was a...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/02/sociopathic-journalism.html
I've just finished the first draft of 2/5 of The Art of Insight. This week I'll be sending it to some friends to get some feedback. I printed it out to edit it myself. The book will be launched l...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2023/01/a-sneak-peek-of-art-of-insight.html
All my books contain quotes prefacing sections and chapters. These quotes are deliberately chosen to be connected to the themes I write about, or to subtly hint things without saying them explici...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2022/12/quotes-in-art-of-insight.html
In preparation to write a few chapters of The Art of Insight this coming week, I've been re-reading a couple of books by ROBERT GRUDIN , THE GRACE OF GREAT THINGS and DESIGN AND TRUTH . Grudin...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2022/12/revisiting-robert-grudin-while-writing.html
Nigel Holmes's JOYFUL INFOGRAPHICS is the first book I've edited for CRC Press's AK Peters Visualization Series , that I co-lead with TAMARA MUNZNER . The second is Jen Christiansen's BUILDI...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2022/12/the-joy-of-infographics-and-value-of.html
Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration, by Pedro Cruz The Art of Insight has a publication date: NOVEMBER 14, 2023. I've been writing at a very good pace for the past few months, and...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2022/12/the-art-of-insight-publication-dateplus.html
While editing chapters from THE ART OF INSIGHT that are already finished —more than one third of the book— I realized how many of the designers I talked to favor hand-crafted techniques v...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2022/12/handcrafted-infographics.html
Some reactions to the WASHINGTON POST CHART on the right, designed by my former student LUÍS MELGAR , reminded me of a passage from The Art of Insight THAT I SHARED THE OTHER DAY . This morn...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2022/11/idealism-and-pragmatism-in-visualization.html
Every semester I teach my regular introduction to information design and data visualization class (syllabus here .) Most students are data scientists, statisticians, engineers, interaction design...
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2022/11/the-training-wheel-approach-to-teaching.html