The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
—John W. Tukey. Exploratory Data Analysis. 1977.
FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves.
As for me, I'm Dr. Nathan Yau, PhD, but you can call me Nathan. My dissertation was on personal data collection and how we can use visualization in the everyday context. That expands to more general types of data and visualization and design for a growing audience.