About the author xii

A note on typography xiii

Introduction: On Magic (with Shirley Wu) 3

Part I: Pragmatists 17

Chapter 1: Unruly Stripes (with Ed Hawkins) 19

Chapter 2: A World of Conversation 29

Part 2: Eccentrics 43

Chapter 3: The Eternal Wanderer (with Jaime Serra) 45

Chapter 4: A Certain Inner Light (with Nadieh Bremer) 59

Chapter 5: A Mindful Artisan (with Sonja Kuijpers) 71

Chapter 6: Living Visualization (with Pedro Cruz) 79

Chapter 7: Data and Persons (with Federica Fragapane) 89

Chapter 8: Souls Before Numbers (with Mohamad Waked) 101

Coda 108

Part 3: Ambassadors 113

Chapter 9: Building Bridges (with Allen Hillery) 115

Chapter 10: The Good Fighter (with Amanda Makulec) 127

Chapter 11: Making Data Friendly (with Alli Torban) 139

Chapter 12: A Reporter Among Engineers (with Aaron Williams) 149

Chapter 13: The Therapy of Visualization (with Deniz Cem Önduygu) 159

Chapter 14: The Public Intellectual (with Attila Bátorfy) 171

Chapter 15: The Discerning Outsider (with Harkanwal Singh) 183

Second Coda 192

Part 4: Narrators 197

Chapter 16: A Journalism of Care (with Alyssa Fowers) 199

Chapter 17: No Treasure Hunts (with Lena Groeger) 209

Chapter 18: Smart Brevity (with Danielle Alberti, Jacque Schrag, and Will Chase) 219

Chapter 19: Visceral Visualizations (with Gurman Bhatia) 231

Chapter 20: The Determined Learner (with Jane Pong) 241

Chapter 21: The Jack-of-All-Trades (with Simon Ducroquet) 251

Chapter 22: A Journalist at War (with Anatoliy Bondarenko) 261

Epilogue: Teachers, Mentors, and Meaning 271

Acknowledgments 280

Bibliography 282

Index 286

The Art of Insight

How Great Visualization Designers Think