News

Upcoming & Current

June 30th, 2012 I am teaching a workshop about Client-Side Data-driven Web applications at LondonJS School Trip
July 12th, 2012 I am speaking at LonData about Telling Stories with Data with Alex Graul
Sept 28-29, 2012 I am speaking at BogotaConf

Past

June 19th, 2012 We submitted a Knight Challenge Proposal:
GenderTracker - Shrinking the gender gap in newsrooms.

Please vote!!
May 15th, 2012 I attended a Safety Data Hackday at the White House
Read more about the trip on the Bocoup blog
April 18th, 2012 We (Bocoup + Guardian Interactive Team) released the first library of The Miso Project - Dataset
Read more about the release on the Bocoup blog
Mar 29th, 2012 I gave an Ignite Talk titled: Worlds Colliding - The Future of Interactive Journalism (video) in Boston, MA
Mar 12th, 2012 I hosted a panel at SxSW: Data Vis is Dead, Long Live Data Vis! in Austin, TX (Recording available at above link)
Feb 21st, 2012 I spoke about Storytelling with Data at sameAs in London.
Feb 2nd, 2012 I delivered the closing keynote at Monkigras with Alex Graul in London, UK.
Transcending Eye-candy - Responsible Data Visualization.
Jan 27th, 2012 Startup Data Trends is released. Read more here.
July 11th,
2011
I officially started at Bocoup.
June 16,
2011
Today was my last day at the Visual Communication Lab @ IBM Research. You can read more about my future plans here.
June 10 - 12
2011
I was at Foo camp and held a session titled "Put Some Tweets on a Map and BAM - You've Got Data Visualization. Or Do You?!"
Keep an eye out for a longer article discussing this talk.
May 23,
2011
I've launched a new project as part of The VCL Sketches: NYTWrites: Exploring the New York Times Authorship. See it live here, or read more about it here.
May 6,
2011
The UMass Amherst CS Department gave me an Outstanding Young Alumn Award for my research contribution to Human-Computer Interaction with a focus on the use of visualization in collaborative, civic and social spaces. Thank you UMass CS, I am still deeply humbled.
April 6,
2011
I wrote a guest blog post Death and the Powers: a critique at http://zedequalszee.com/
March 12th,
2011
I was on a SxSW panel Time Traveling: Interfaces for Geotemporal Visualization in Austin Texas.
Read about it in this article from Techland @ Time.com.
March 4th,
2011
Read an Austin Chronicle interview with me and Adam Rabinowitz about our upcoming SxSW panel on the topic of Geotemporal Visualization.
December 19,
2010
Read about our project, Many Bills, in The New York Times: Computers Help Social Animals to See Beyond Their Tribes
September 22nd,
2010
Listen in to the first episode of The Digital Life from Involution Studios where I talk about Visualization.