ZanBe as Cautious as Possible for the next 14 daysThis is the letter I wrote to family and friends this morning. Within 20 minutes I’d gotten texts from my friend who is an ER doctor and…10 min read·Mar 15, 2020----
ZanA Sampling of Data VisualizationI wrote this originally for students studying CS at Burton High School in San Francisco, but figured I’d post on Medium to have the chance…5 min read·Sep 19, 2018----
ZanOpen Data SourcesI recently taught a lesson on data visualization to a class of CS students at Lowell High School in San Francisco. One question was about…2 min read·Apr 16, 2018----
ZanStory Behind the Viz: The Baby SpikeWhen you first look at the visualization below, what do you notice first? The big spike? The colors? The shape? Something else?21 min read·Nov 1, 2017--1--1
ZanPart II: One set of data, many storiesOr, why a dual y-axis chart is not a normalized delta chart6 min read·Jun 15, 2017----
ZanOne set of data, many storiesIn March 2017, Brookings Institute put out a paper by Case & Deaton on Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century.4 min read·Apr 3, 2017----
ZaninHi.StamenThe Shapes of EmotionsOne of the core visualizations in the Atlas of Emotions shows the range of states of each of the 5 emotions (anger, fear, disgust, sadness…10 min read·Jul 27, 2016--2--2
ZanWhy choose? Scrollytelling & Steppers“Scrollytelling” is an online storytelling technique in which more and more content is revealed as the user scrolls down the page.9 min read·Jun 7, 2016--1--1
ZaninHi.StamenExploring the Amazon with Code and DataA project with Stamen and National Geographic6 min read·Apr 6, 2016----
ZanTrouble, cunning, and a fighting spirit — the key to visualizing datatreasures from the past: Anscombe3 min read·May 8, 2014----