Video of Steve Franconeri Outlier '24 talk
Reading a Graph is Like Reading a Paragraph (Resources)


Our review of the psychology of data communication. It's open access, just click PDF in the top middle of that page.

Tal & Steve's
Dinosaur paper, and trick your friends with the demo here
Reading a graph is like reading a paragraph paper

Cindy Xiong-Bearfield's site: Includes graph affordances & the curse of expertise.

Ouxun Jiang's guide to limits (& how to design around them) in animated visualizations, and please advise us on how to improve it here. We'd lok to work with a professional info designer on making it better, drop a note if you are game!

'Learning Styles' are not supported by research (so far, but a lot of really smart people have tried). Here is the short version and here is the long version.


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Questions? Email Steve at franconeri@northwestern.edu



Eat things

This invite is outdated, but leaving it up here for the memories - that was a fun evening!

Questions? Nerdy chart thoughts? That's more fun over snacks. I hereby declare Outlier night as June 13, 2024 at Time Out Market 6:30-whenever. Time Out is at 916 W Fulton Market, Chicago, two miles west of the conf site. Look for us first on the second floor (easier to find people) - if you don't see us, check the 3rd floor (rooftop deck), or maybe back to first floor [shrug emoji]).

Everyone is welcome, including local virtual attendees. If you can't find us, you can try emailing, and if something changes I'll try to update this page.

Weather permitting, I'll bikeshare over at 6ish if anyone wants to come on the adventure ride (you can use the lyft app for bikes)