Month: February 2021

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Erica Gunn

Dashboard Redesign: Understanding Purpose

This article is part of a series that illustrates how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous installments focused on understanding the audience and..
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Rohan Jhunja

Putting Three Meals on the Table

At Gramener, we each took up a personal data challenge over the month of December 2020. Since my family at home had been fighting over how..
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Andy Krackov & Sarah Marikos

Asterisk Nation: One Tribe’s Challenge to Find Data About its Population

The Yurok Tribe in far northern California needs to address a condition plaguing numerous rural communities in the United States: addiction and substance misuse. Across..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Food for Thought: Part 1 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

Hello! I’m a student, data journalist, and designer with a love for all things dataviz. In accordance with annual traditions, I spent a lot of..
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Katie Kilroy

What is Data Scaffolding?

Even if you’ve never heard of data scaffolding, it’s likely that you have (or will face!) a data problem of your own for which scaffolding..
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Cory Cone

Finding a Through Line, or My Creative Process Is a Mess, So Is Life, and That’s Okay (Probably)

On December 10th, 2020, I presented my Master’s thesis over Zoom to a panel of guests and other members of my cohort in the Data..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

From Triad to Qualitative

In this writing, I discuss how to work with a Triad color harmony to create a qualitative color scheme. Qualitative color schemes use colors to label different..
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datacitron

I Had a Chat with Alberto Cairo before Giving a Talk, Here’s What He Told Me

5 tips from an experienced speaker A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure to have a friendly, little call with Alberto Cairo as part of..