February 2020, Nightingale

Month: February 2020

Emilia Ruzicka

Racial Bias in Code and Data: An Interview with Alex Garcia

As a young data journalist, I was advised to attend NICAR — an annual data journalism conference organized by Investigative Editors and Reporters and their suborganization, the National..

Jason Forrest

Lessons Of Isotype: “Only An Ocean Between” (Part 1)

There’s much to be told in the story of the Isotype. The International System Of Typographic Picture Education (ISOTYPE) was invented by Otto Neurath in collaboration with his wife Marie Neurath, and Gerd Arntz. While..

Alexandra Khoo

Four Big Dataviz Myths, Busted

On a dedicated channel, #dvs-topics-in-data-viz, in the Data Visualization Society Slack, our members discuss questions and issues pertinent to the field of data visualization. Discussion..

Erica Gunn

How to Use Whitespace, the Punctuation Between Visual Elements

This is the first in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The next installment will apply some..

Erica Gunn

Designing for Charts

This is the third in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. Previous articles focused on whitespace and..