Month: July 2020

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Mary Aviles

Indelible Impressions: Why You Won’t Forget the Map Room Project

In my quest to improve data fluency among those who think of themselves as non-data people, I am always on the lookout for physical manifestations..
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Amy Cesal

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization

Alt text (sometimes called alt tags or alternative text) are written descriptions added to images that convey the meaning of the visual. Good alt text helps more people..
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Isaac Levy-Rubinett

With Great Visualization Comes Great Responsibility

When The New York Times’s visual story How the Virus Got Out published, the two circles of data journalists Youyou Zhou is a member of reacted differently. On..
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Amy Cesal

How to Create Brand Colors for Data Visualization Style Guidelines

The most common push back I hear about creating a unique style guide for data visualization, is “We have a style guide for the brand,..