May 2021, Nightingale

Month: May 2021

Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Color in a Perceptual Uniform Way

This writing discusses the Hue-Chroma-Luminance (HCL) color space that is tailored to how we see colors as humans. In my previous writings on colorizing data..

Mala Deep

Five Free Data Visualization Tools for Beginners

We have used data visualization in some way or other since time immemorial, from early cave paintings to today’s advanced information dashboards. The human eye..

Eli Holder

Dashboard Psychology: Effective Feedback in Data Design

“What you measure, you improve.” You’ve heard this a million times. It sounds nice. It seems plausible. There’s a bunch of evidence supporting it. But..

Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Pei Ying Loh

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Pei Ying Loh is the co-founder and head of Kontinentalist, a data-driven editorial studio based in..

Matteo Moretti

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..

Emilia Ruzicka

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..