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A spate of dumb tweets has been making the news of late. First, there was the Justine Sacco train wreck. By now, you’ve probably seen or at least heard of this gem:
Let’s be honest, 70% of teams in NBA could fold tomorrow + nobody would notice a difference w/ possible exception of increase in streetcrime...

My first Wired post on is now live. I look at some of the ways that Netflix utilizes information and dataviz in interesting ways. Here’s an excerpt:
In a data-driven environment like Netflix, data visualization plays a key role. It must. In The Visual Organization, I offer the following definition of data visualization. Dataviz signifies the practice of representing data through visual and often...

I very am pleased to announce the publication of my sixth book, The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions. (Technically, I don’t own a physical copy yet. It hit the Wiley warehouse yesterday...

Dorie Clark recently interviewed me about the new book. Here’s an excerpt:
“The Visual Organization is fundamentally about how progressive organizations today are using a wide array of data visualization (dataviz) tools to ask better questions of their data–and make better business decisions,” says Simon...