Data visualizations are a cross between art, programming, and storytelling.
I've always been fascinated by the process creators go through to bring something from their imagination into existence. What amazed me was how the journey isn't a clear path from idea to finished product. I loved how Nadieh and Shirley documented their thought process – bringing me along and sharing why they made each decision.
Each chapter is a breakdown of a different data visualization. I laughed at how many of them were nerdy interests I loved: Dance Dance Revolution, Card Captor Sakura, and Lord of the Rings, to name a few. It reminded me that if I have fun, that'll show up in the finished product.
In Data Sketches, Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu document the deeply creative process behind 24 unique data visualization projects, and they combine this with powerful technical insights which reveal the mindset behind coding creatively. Exploring 12 different themes - from the Olympics to Presidents & Royals and from Movies to Myths & Legends - each pair of visualizations explores different technologies and forms, blurring the boundary between visualization as an exploratory tool and an artform in its own right. This beautiful book provides an intimate, behind-the-scenes account of all 24 projects and shares the authors' personal notes and drafts every…
Dark Academia has been one of my favorite genres ever since Harry Potter.
The Will of the Many takes this trope to a darker place, along the lines of Red Rising or The Hunger Games. It develops not just a school, but an entire society that I wanted to learn more about on every page.
In this society, people can cede their "will", either consensually or non-conceptually, to others making them stronger. I loved the symbolism of this societal structure with our own, while also trying to understand how to change the system from within.
At the elite Catenan Academy, where students are prepared as the future leaders of the Hierarchy empire, the curriculum reveals a layered set of mysteries which turn murderous in this new fantasy by bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.
Vis, the adopted son of Magnus Quintus Ulcisor, a prominent senator within the Hierarchy, is trained to enter the famed Catenan Academy to help Ulciscor learn what the hidden agenda is of the remote island academy. Secretly, he also wants Vis to discover what happed to his brother who died at the academy. He's sure the current Principalis of…
Although I hyped this up after seeing it on many favorites list, I loved this.
I love building websites. It's something I've been doing since high school and find so much joy in. The characters in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow share a similar passion for building video games. That passion (and occasional obsession) mirrors my own experience creating things online.
With each game Sadie and Sam developed, I thought about the games that inspired them that I also played. Their conversations about naming and creative decisions on what should go into building a game mirrored my own experience working at startups. The complexity of their friendship and working relationship led to many conversations between my wife and I about their feelings – even leading to some different interpretations. 😂
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest, examining identity, creativity and our need to connect.
This is not a romance, but it is about love.
'I just love this book and I hope you love it too' JOHN GREEN, TikTok
Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Sadie is visiting her sister, Sam is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there, but playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition -- and a special friendship. Then all too soon that time is…
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