Pages of the Past: the Emerging Patterns exhibition at the University of Toronto

This month, I visited the Emerging Patterns exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, where curators Aurora Mendelsohn, Anthony Gray and Kelly Schultz had hand-picked books from the library’s unique collection to showcase examples of data visualization throughout history. It was a unique opportunity to see these examples in their original publications, […]

Interpreting the Do No Harm guide through a Canadian context for Truth and Reconciliation

How do we approach and present data responsibly, with intention and purpose? The Do No Harm Guide for data visualization, published by Jon Schwabish and Alice Feng (Urban Institute) earlier this year, presented a set of guidelines for visualizing through a lens of equity awareness. To apply the Do No Harm Guide, Schwabish and Feng […]