“She painted a very clear picture about survival.”

Has this ever happened to you: you settle in for what you think is going to be a moderate level task and find it turns into an Olympic endeavor? Perhaps, you’re building a dashboard, a user t…

Data workers live in an odd space – exposed to the hidden patterns of the world without often being immersed in the conditions of it. We listen to our users, hear their stories, but how much …

BY CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO As a professor at MIT, I find myself navigating strange waters these days. Last semester, I advised the thesis of a student who left the country because she did not fee…

AI has shown us again and again how it aims to change our society. Is this technology really "here to stay" and what's it doing to us?

Call this the anecdata / sketching fuzzy data edition…. Lots of models exist for discussing grief. I wanted to provide a rough visual for how I think about the transformation process of grief…

I’ve sat through perhaps too many conversations on AI this month. Whether in-person (hi Outlier), online (oh, the discourse), or anywhere else I happened to be, GenAI is specifically on the m…

In advance of what will likely be a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in the U.S. v. Skrmetti case, the Trans Journalists Association offers the following guidance to reporters, newsrooms, and othe...

As GenAI moves into spaces we’ve historically held for trusted confidantes, we data people have to delve deeper into our own very human, very messy relationships. Yet, we do rarely delve into…

In our second session, we'll go over what it takes to create an impactful chart

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

You can’t write a book on functional aesthetics and not consider the external packaging. After all, it’s the first impression folks get. We, the authors, led the design on it. It’…