July 2008
2 posts
Going Public Beta Today
Hi Everyone,
Visible Certainty is going public beta today. This has been a long trip and might be worth visiting the history of how we got here.
First Jason and I spent from 1998 to 2006 trying to get to a Tufte conference. We were fascinated by the premise of a better way to communicate data, but we were also pretty busy. The first time we talked about it we were busy working on the...
Space Shuttle Challenger
Is it the data, the tool, or the editorial choices that are made in analyzing the data that cause good people to make bad decisions based on poor data visualizations?
For instance, on the morning of Jan 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight. The disintegration of the shuttle was caused by the failure of an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster. ...