Month: March 2020

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Silvia Romanelli

Why Should Non-Profits Add Data Visualisation to their Communication Toolkit?

After the corporate sector and journalism, non-profit organisations are slowly starting to put their data to use and visualise it—for example, using numbers, maps, and..
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Will Chase

Constructing a Career in Dataviz: Getting Started

In 1984, when my parents were searching for their first home together, my dad decided the best solution — given their limited budget — was..
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Andy Krackov

Flattening the Curve and Expanding My Understanding

I’ve worked in the field of health data visualization for about 20 years now, so I’m embarrassed to say that, before this week, I hadn’t..
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Jason Forrest

Exploring Isotype Charts: “Our Two Democracies At Work” (LESSONS OF ISOTYPE — PART 3)

Discussing the charts in the Book Series “America & Britain” Of all the grand, utopian plans created by modernist designers, Isotype is, perhaps, the least..
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Mary Aviles

Data Visualization As an Act of Witnessing

In late 2016, I read an article by Michael Brennan, principal of Detroit-based, nonprofit design firm Civilla, in the Harvard Business Review. I was haunted by this line: “I..