I just returned from a long walk near my home in the hills of Berkeley. During the walk I listened to a podcast of an NPR program about research into the causes and treatments of particular neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism. One of the researchers from the M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California in […]

I currently teach a workshop called “Information Visualization for Discovery and Analysis”. In this workshop I present several general practices for analyzing quantitative business data using interactive visual techniques, as well as many specific visual representations of data and visual analysis techniques that are designed to solve particular business analysis problems. For instance, I describe […]

Last night while on my way to visit friends, I happened to look up and notice the moon. Nothing about the moon last night was particularly spectacular or eye catching; in fact, it was a little sliver of a thing, but still beautiful and awe-inspiring, as it always is. I didn’t just see it there […]

The ground in my Berkeley neighborhood is saturated. A series of winter storms have drenched us with rain to the point where the earth has closed its mouth, refusing to drink any more. Our streets have become rivers and lakes. As I contemplate what to say in this, my first-ever blog entry, the current saturated […]