Publications
My consulting rests on twenty years of research. I've published three books, had papers at ACM CHI and IEEE VIS. One of my papers was awarded an IEEE VIS Test of Time award. You don't need to read any of it to work with me, but it explains how I think.
Books
Papers
I've published dozens of papers in academic venues such as ACM CHI and IEEE VIS; these are some of my favorites.
Working with big data at interactive speeds
Establishes that progressive visualization can improve the speed of data exploration. More about this project
Establishes the importance of interactive techniques for exploring large datasets.
Gives more precise feedback on which parts of the visualization are accurate. More about this project
How to make an effective visualization
Understanding the many meanings and uses for dashboards.
Explores the unique needs of visual designers creating data visualizations. More about this project
Received the IEEE VIS Test of Time award in 2018.
Visualization in the workplace
Explores how data visualization can support DevOps practices. More about this project
The full list is on Google Scholar.
Selected talks
- Keynote: Using Visualization to Empower Observability IEEE VIS TestVis workshop, 2022
- Making Outages Boring Screaming in the Cloud podcast, 2020
- Making data visual: a practical session on using visualization for insight, with Miriah Meyer Strata Data Conference London, half-day tutorial, 2018
- Pitfalls in Measuring SLOs QCon London, 2020
- Why Exploring Big Data is Hard (and What We Can Do About It) OpenVis Conference, 2015
- What Designers and Data Scientists Can Learn from Each Other O'Reilly Strata+Hadoop World, 2015
- Making Data Visual, with Miriah Meyer Data Stories podcast, 2018
- Bridging Academia and Industry Data Stories podcast, episode 9, 2012