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I don't like cartooning politics. So I often don't. But after this election... Well, let's just say I needed to draw and post these before I could draw almost anything else. So here …
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A logic model, or theory of change, is one of the most common forms of visualization you'll find in any evaluation report. They can be critical in helping a program or project think through the …
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As in the past several years, I'll be live cartooning this year's American Evaluation Association Conference. This post will keep getting updated, so make sure you bookmark it and come back and visit …
So as promised, I've been focusing a lot of attention on building my creative workshop for data people. But while I haven't posted here, I've still been cartooning. So I thought maybe once a month …
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The secret to a great whiteboard animation is a fantastic talk. It's not a way to make boring talks interesting, but rather make already great talks spreadable through a new channel. Check out …
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Today's cartoon comes from a set I created for Michael Quinn Patton. …
From Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information: A large share of ink on a graphic should present data-information, the ink changing as the data change. Data-ink is the …
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I think we tend to undervalue Hans Rosling as a performer while hyping his data visualization. When you first watched his early *TED talks did you think, "Maybe I should create a bubble chart?" Or …
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Austin Kleon was on Kelton Reid's The Writer Files podcast. He said this when talking about writers block. It sparked today's cartoon. Problems of output are problems of input. …
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I really believe that good data visualization, good reporting and good presentations are all about good storytelling. So I tend to search out inspiration from great storytellers. I read the post I …
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From Let’s Tesselate: Hexagons For Tile Grid Maps by Danny DeBelius of the npr visuals team: As the saying goes, nothing is certain in this life but death, taxes and requests for geographic data to …
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