I celebrated my birthday last weekend. Those who know me are familiar with a few of my passions: good wine, good food, and good data viz. The first two were enjoyed during a wonderfully relaxing weekend trip to Calistoga. It turns out that my team at work had the latter covered. Today at our team meeting, they presented me with the following:

The birthday card: note the effective use of preattentive attributes.

A laminated poster: they know me well. :-)

A big thanks to my amazing team for the creative birthday wishes!

3/12 update: turns out my current team doesn't have a monopoly on the data viz card business. I received the following card from a friend - as he points out, amusing due to my "love" of pie charts.