The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Willard Brinton’s Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts provided advice to chart makers and critiques of charts in the early 20th century.
Scott Berinato • Good Charts
The model of opinion writing is no longer the essay form as perfected by, say, Perry Anderson, but the data-visualization chart as perfected by Nate Silver. There are still grammatically complete sentences grafted on to the data, but there is no reason to expect that these will hang on for long, as the process of transition from thinking to data-mo... See more
Three Telltale Signs of Online Post-Literacy
As you explore this document, imagine a world where we expect every claim to be accompanied by an explorable analysis, and every statistic to be linked to a primary source. Imagine collecting data and designing analyses in a collaborative wiki-like manner.