Note: this is the foreword of the book Data Visualization in Society (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) Geographer John Pickles once wrote that “GIS is a set of tools, technologies, approaches and ideas that are vitally embedded in broader transformations of science, society, and culture.” …

On August 27, 2019, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) predicted that tropical storm Dorian would become a hurricane and that Florida was in its probable path: A few months before, I had finished writing a new book about how visualizations can mislead and deceive. One of its chapters explains how…

(This article was originally published in www.thefunctionalart.com) Just a quick thought: I’m at the 2017 CAR conference these days. I’ll be talking about communicating uncertainty with Mark Hansen and Jen Christiansen. I’ve put together this folder with readings and our slides, in case you’re curious. Anyway, I’ve just attended a…