# Essays

- [The Process](https://truth-and-beauty.net/appearances/texts/the-process) — There's a method to the madness. (2025)
- [Crisis? What crisis?](https://truth-and-beauty.net/appearances/texts/crisis-what-crisis) — Why 2024 was a dead year for indie dataviz — and how we’ll do much better in 2025 (2025)
- [There be dragons: dataviz in the industry](https://truth-and-beauty.net/appearances/texts/there-be-dragons) — Why don't we see more ambitious data visualization in corporate settings? (2017)
- [Little boxes](https://truth-and-beauty.net/appearances/texts/little-boxes) — Would the field of data vis benefit from a clear line between art and design? (2016)
- [A Practitioner’s Perspective on the How, What and Why of Data Visualization](https://truth-and-beauty.net/appearances/texts/new-challenges-for-data-design) — From David Bihanic's "New challenges for Data Design" for Springer: a full-chapter interview with me on my work process and approach. (2014)
- [Worlds, not stories](https://truth-and-beauty.net/appearances/texts/worlds-not-stories) — The greatest potential for data visualization: to provide us with new kinds of "glasses" to see the world. (2014)
- [Propositional density in visualization](https://truth-and-beauty.net/appearances/texts/propositional-density) — A short note on deep readings of data visualizations. (2010)

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