I'm happy to provide that service. But that's the power of it. A good infographic that's been really worked on looks simple and easy, but it actually required a lot of processing.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

If you want to visualize something in its fullness you have to look at every perspective and every angle, and that means - sometimes uncomfortably - looking at things you don't want to look at.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

It's enjoyable to just drink in an image. It's effortless. That struck me as an interesting way of looking at it: I do all the grunt work so you can enjoy.

I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction of the narrative.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

Sometimes the data has a sense of a structure within it, especially if I'm looking at networks or relationships, which generally lend themselves to a certain style.

In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.

There is truth in wine and children

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

He who flees will fight again.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.