We've seen it in the last U.S. presidential campaign 2016: both sides were trading graphs and circulating data visualizations to make their point. So the political establishment is waking up to the power of a good graph as well. — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, it feels like there's more intelligence in that. It maintains the usability, but tries to distill something down to its essence. But with some data-sets you have to be careful because, as with linear, print journalism,… — David Mccandless Copy Share
I have a computational quality to my mind, I suppose. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with video games. I reprogrammed games,… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and narrative of… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day. — David McCandless Copy Share Image
For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
I'm doing a lot of cognitive processing. I'm gathering research. I'm processing it. I'm arranging the data. I'm sorting out the narrative. I'm designing.… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Some of the commercial work I do is helping people to improve their presentations and add some design thinking. There are so many amazing… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
I've been working on a graphic about carbon emissions. It's an incredibly simple graphic - a bunch of blocks and a table below it… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
