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We are excited to announce the launch of the publishing arm of Threestory Studio Threestory Press. Our first publication is The Gift of Broken Things, a collection of poems and photography by Erik Jacobsen. The book celebrates Erik's love of language and wordplay, along with his appreciation for light and the beauty of everyday things and simple moments. The 33 poems are accompanied by photographs taken around the block and around the world. In addition to copies of the book, you can also… [read more →]

Fenwick & West takes an annual deep look at shareholder behavior related to proxy votes for public companies with a particular interest in how Silicon Valley companies compare to the rest of the country. We handle all the data visualization for the reports. In addition to the usual area charts, line plots, histograms, and column charts, we have introduced some other ways of looking at the data to aid with the comparison of Silicon Valley companies against their national peers, and to… [read more →]

We have been helping the Dreyfus Group at Golden Gate Sotheby's International Realty with city-specific market reports for a number of years now, starting in Palo Alto. There are a few things that make this report unique. First, we use the sale date (the date the home went into contract) to indicate the timing of sales. Most reports use the close date, which can be a month or more after the home went into contract. Sale date is a more accurate reflection of market activity as it happens. … [read more →]

Visual thinking has power to inform the scientific process. Andrea Martin, an experimental psychologist at the University of Edinburgh, studies what she refers to as “the most powerful communication system in the known universe” — human language. She reached out to me for help with creating a clear visual depiction of the model she had developed for how we speak and understand language. We began a visual exploration that started with a draft of her paper, her rough sketch, and many questions from … [read more →]

My work examining diversity in the tech workforce (on my own and for Wired Magazine) eventually led me to this question: If the tech workforce doesn't reflect the ethnic diversity of the general population, are there any industries that do?  I like answerable questions. The employment data was available from the U.S. Census Bureau as part of their Quarterly Workforce Indicators. I grabbed the data and did some analysis, calculating a parity index by comparing the percent of workers in industry … [read more →]