The Art of Insight

About the author xii A note on typography xiii Introduction: On Magic (with Shirley Wu) 3 Part I: Pragmatists 17 Chapter 1: Unruly Stripes (with Ed Hawkins) 19 Chapter 2: A World of Conversation 29 Part 2: Eccentrics 43 Chapter 3: The Eternal Wanderer (with Jaime Serra) 45 Chapter 4: A Certain Inner Light (with Nadieh Bremer) 59 Chapter 5: A Mindful Artisan (with Sonja Kuijpers) 71 Chapter 6: Living Visualization (with Pedro Cruz) 79 Chapter 7: Data and Persons (with Federica Fragapane) 89 Chapter 8: Souls Before Numbers (with Mohamad Waked) 101 Coda 108 Part 3: Ambassadors 113 Chapter 9: Building Bridges (with Allen Hillery) 115 Chapter 10: The Good Fighter (with Amanda Makulec) 127 Chapter 11: Making Data Friendly (with Alli Torban) 139 Chapter 12: A Reporter Among Engineers (with Aaron Williams) 149 Chapter 13: The Therapy of Visualization (with Deniz Cem Önduygu) 159 Chapter 14: The Public Intellectual (with Attila Bátorfy) 171 Chapter 15: The Discerning Outsider (with Harkanwal Singh) 183 Second Coda 192 Part 4: Narrators 197 Chapter 16: A Journalism of Care (with Alyssa Fowers) 199 Chapter 17: No Treasure Hunts (with Lena Groeger) 209 Chapter 18: Smart Brevity (with Danielle Alberti, Jacque Schrag, and Will Chase) 219 Chapter 19: Visceral Visualizations (with Gurman Bhatia) 231 Chapter 20: The Determined Learner (with Jane Pong) 241 Chapter 21: The Jack-of-All-Trades (with Simon Ducroquet) 251 Chapter 22: A Journalist at War (with Anatoliy Bondarenko) 261 Epilogue: Teachers, Mentors, and Meaning 271 Acknowledgments 280 Bibliography 282 Index 286