Maria Popova knows what makes a person. A few hundred pages into “Traversal,” her kaleidoscopic, astounding and often maddening exploration of the evanescence of life and love, she tells us: “What ...

Know what message you’re trying to communicate before you get down in the weeds. by Scott Berinato Not long ago, the ability to create smart data visualizations, or dataviz, was a nice-to-have skill.