Author: Francis Gagnon

One of our data overlords, Google, organized a massive open online course (MOOC) called Making sense of data from March 18 to April 4. It…

The data visualization community seems to be looking for a bone to pick, but it hasn’t found one yet. At Visualized, it tried storytelling; at…

Imagine a forest: trees of varying sizes and types, leaves of infinite shades of green to red, trunks from brown to grey, rays of…

Infographics get a bad reputation because too many of them get data visualization wrong. Just now Kim Rees pointed out to Visually that their “staff…

Data is numbers reflecting a reality. In the debate about the Reuters graph, there seems to be two schools of thought: those who want…

Following the selection of a woman to head General Motors, there’s been some brouhaha on Twitter in reaction to the publication of a graph…

After completing a visual summary of the protagonists’ favored explanations in the death of Michelle O’Connell, I produced this visual timeline because it seemed that…

Walt Bogdanich and Glenn Silber have written a gripping article in the New York Times about the suspicious circumstances of Michelle O’Connell’s death, in September 2010….

Finally, it’s beginning. It’s with considerable excitement that I finally introduce to the world Voilà, an information design company.  You might say that this is another…