Let's say you want your organization to be rooted in your community. To be of value to your community. To reflect and represent your c...

Imagine a concise, well-designed report on audiences for cultural activities in a large urban city. Imagine it peppered with snappy graphi...

I’ve always been inspired by the creative ways the Brooklyn Museum uses technology to connect visitors to museum content. Now, the Broo...

Last month at the AAM conference, a speaker said, "we should all be using measures of quality of life  to measure success at our muse...

Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray mu...

Detail on distribution of artworks in the Tate collection by birthdate of artists, visualized by Florian Krautli. What does "big da...

A woman walks into your museum. She's visited a few times before, and you vaguely recognize her as the lady who loved bubble painting,...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the power of data visualization as an addition to the exhibit design toolkit. Paul Orselli made a th...

I have seen the future of interpretative design, and that future is data visualization. I'm talking tables of figures. Huge swaths of ...

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science ce...

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies...