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Why I Quit X (Twitter)

By |2024-10-01T16:43:04+00:00October 1st, 2024|General Discussions|

Last week I saw a reprehensible and delusional post from Elon Musk on his social media platform, X. Shortly thereafter I read Robert Reich’s Guardian opinion piece on how Elon Musk has gained a concerning level of power over US national security. For certain, Musk is a genius. He is our era’s Thomas Edison and [...]

Laying off Twitter for a Week

By |2022-12-14T20:15:33+00:00December 14th, 2022|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Health and Social Issues|

Where and how to have discussions around data visualization From December 5 through 9, I took a break from Twitter to spark conversation on The Data Visualization Society’s Slack workspace. I want to thank the dozens of colleagues who joined me for this experiment as we needed, and got, a critical mass of participants. [...]

Some people to follow

By |2022-09-21T23:14:37+00:00September 21st, 2022|Business Visualizations, General Discussions|

I subscribe to a lot of newspapers and magazines (some of which I read), but to satisfy my interest in data visualization, I find the best information often comes from people I follow on Twitter and from newsletter subscriptions. I’ll confess that I’m surprised at how many good conversations I see about data visualization on [...]

The person I watch, the people I follow, and the sites I follow

By |2021-01-17T19:12:52+00:00March 29th, 2020|Business Visualizations, General Discussions, Health and Social Issues|

Overview I've written previously about how difficult it can be not to get sucked into the 24/7 Coronavirus vortex. I'm trying to be mindful of who and what I follow and wanted to share this. The person I watch I encourage you to watch New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's daily press briefings, even if [...]