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Martina Zunica

100 Bridgerton Colors

This project started from my interest in extracting color palettes from scenes of everyday life—I like to take pictures of what is all around me..

Rajesh Sigdel

Using Infographics to Make Climate Change More Visible to the Public

Climate change may not be a directly observable phenomenon, but its impacts are currently threatening the lives of all living organisms. Although the majority of..

Ali Tehrani

SPOTLIGHT: How Racially Diverse Are The Oscars, Really?

This article spotlights Ali Tehrani’s design process. This visualization was featured as Tableau’s Viz of the Day on April 26, 2021.Earlier this year, I came..

Emilia Ruzicka

Are You Not Entertained?: Part 4 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fourth installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the third part before jumping in, here’s the article..

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100 Bridgerton Colors

This project started from my interest in extracting color palettes from scenes of everyday life—I like to take pictures of what is all around me..
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You’ve Got Mail: Part 5 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fifth installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the fourth part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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You’ve Visualized Your Data, Now Actualize Your Promotion

I sat through approximately 160 cross-calibration conversations for analysts in my career. A cross-cal is how many companies ensure associates get a fair performance rating..
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REVIEW: Data + Diversity-Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois

I identify as “new to data.” So, when I attended Tableau’s February Data + Diversity talk, I was totally sending out imposter syndrome vibes. In..
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What Is the Bechdel Test and What Is Its Relevance to Today’s Film Industry?

The film industry is one of the most impactful sectors in our society and it has been influencing our values and opinions for decades now...
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SPOTLIGHT: The Process behind “Among Us” and What I Learned from the DVS Census Challenge

Loris’s visualization won first place in this year’s Data Visualization Society Census Challenge, exploratory category. As a data visualization designer hobbyist, participating in the DVS Census..
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Three Questions with… Emilia Ruzicka

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Today, we’re getting to know one of our regular Nightingale writers, Emilia Ruzicka. Emilia studied data journalism..
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The Why, the What, and the How in Dataviz

This is part nine in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article took a deep..
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REVIEW: Evergreen Data Academy

Two years ago, I didn’t even know that data visualization was a thing. I had just started a new job where I was asked to..
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REVIEW: Hands-on Data Visualization

As a community-taught dataviz designer, I love digging into the craft of turning data into narrative and finding new ways to combat the dataviz equivalent..
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Chatting Xenographics With Maarten Lambrechts

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter.Maarten Lambrechts is a freelance data journalist, data designer, and visualization consultant. Recently, he sat down with Nightingale to..
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How to in Grafana - Part 2: Creating Interactive Dashboards

This is the second article in a series about Grafana. Part 1 was an intro, demonstrating how to create a simple static dashboard using Grafana,..
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SPOTLIGHT: Europe against Racism – in Memoriam to George Floyd

The brutal killing of George Floyd made me rethink many things. Racism is a global problem, but this incident reached a tipping point that drove..
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Perceptual Uniformity with HCL Wizard

In this writing, I discuss how to build a Color Scheme for your data visualization with the freely accessible web app called HCL Wizard. HCL..
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Three Questions with… Amanda Makulec

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Back in January, the Data Visualization Society held its first ever Annual General Meeting and elected a..

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Spotlight on Data Humanism

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Acnephobic: Faces for a Feminist Data Practice

Data visualizations use symbols as a tool to represent a subject. They interpret, simplify, and synthesize – often in a manner detached from the physical..
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Are You Not Entertained?: Part 4 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fourth installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the third part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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Six Ways to Bring Empathy into your Data

One of the big challenges in visualizing data, and quantitative research in general, is helping readers connect with the content. Connecting directly with people and..
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Data Enabling: the Glocal Climate Change Design Process

What is the surgeon’s work? Saving lives or cutting/sewing bodies? Both. One answer refers to the what, the other answer to the how. In that vein, what is the..
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All in a Day’s Work: Part 3 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

This is the third installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the second part before jumping in, here’s the article about my..
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Moving Right Along: Part 2 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

This is the second installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the first part before diving in, here’s the article about my..
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SPOTLIGHT: How Racially Diverse Are The Oscars, Really?

This article spotlights Ali Tehrani’s design process. This visualization was featured as Tableau’s Viz of the Day on April 26, 2021.Earlier this year, I came..
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Three Questions with… Eli Holder

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Eli Holder is principal of 3iap (3 is a pattern), where he helps clients design and..
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Brazil Deforests the Amazon by Areas Equivalent to the Size of 230 Manhattans Annually

The Amazon is important not just for Brazil, but also for the whole world. Here are four of the many reasons:1) PrecipitationThrough transpiration, the Amazon..
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SPOTLIGHT: Visualizing the Political Regimes in the World

Gwen’s visualization won second place in this year’s Data Visualization Society Black In Data challenge. Like most people on the planet last year, I was..
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Three Reasons Why It Is Time to Adopt a Seafood Diet

Human diets can be as unique as fingerprints. We all have our quirks, from general preferences like red meat to vegetarian or vegan to finer..
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Meet the Nightingale Editors

Ever wondered who’s working behind the scenes to get your articles ready for publication at Nightingale? Over a few issues of The ‘Gale, republished here,..
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REVIEW: Julie Mehretu, New Museum of American Art

We are all conglomerations of our influences, remembrances, and fascinations but few artists have assembled them on as vast a scale as Julie Mehretu. The..
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Announcing the Data Viz Society’s New Membership Opportunities

In February 2019, the Data Visualization Society launched with a website, a Google form, and a vision from our three founders to be a tool-agnostic,..
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The Lie Factor and the Baseline Paradox

Within the history of data visualisation, there have been written numerous books with rules on how to properly visualise data. When I started off in..
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Using Infographics to Make Climate Change More Visible to the Public

Climate change may not be a directly observable phenomenon, but its impacts are currently threatening the lives of all living organisms. Although the majority of..
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NIGHTINGALE IS FREE!

Last week Nightingale celebrated a major achievement. Since our launch in 2019, we always planned to have a stand-alone website and create a platform to..
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Why Can’t We Have More Fun?

This is part 8 in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article reviewed chart choices..
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