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I've always been fascinated by photos with long exposure times.

Well look at that, a new blog post!

The words business and data visualization probably put you to sleep before you even reach the end of this sentence.

Before we had D3 and all this fancy web technology, interactive news pieces on the web were usually built using Adobe Flash.

Rainbow colormaps are among the most derided ideas in data visualization, second only to pie charts.

Computational notebooks offer an alternative to the common GUI-based tools used for data visualization and BI today.

I'm teaching a short course on data visualization for Observable.

Josh On's They Rule is back, and I've made a video about it.

This site has been around for over 16 years now, and a lot has changed in the world during that time.

Of the several AI-powered systems that can create images from text prompts, MidJourney is the most easily accessible one right now.

Gauges aren't very popular in visualization, but they have some interesting properties.

I gave a talk at the Outlier conference earlier this year, with the somewhat elaborate title, The Joys – and Dangers – of Bespoke and Unusual Chart Types.

Encodings play a central role in visualization, but I believe our thinking about them is too simplistic.

A bar chart with a distorted vertical axis isn't very unusual.

An opinion piece in the New York Times last week got a lot of attention in visualization circles for its use of a spiral chart as its opener.

The common explanation for how pie charts work is that we read them by angle.

Who are the people who use data and visualization as part of their work every day?

EagerEyes is 15 years old today!

Can you put ranked data into a pie chart that also represents time?

How do you make people not just see numbers when looking at a chart, but feel something?