June 2021, Nightingale

Emilia Ruzicka

Are You Not Entertained?: Part 4 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fourth installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the third part before jumping in, here’s the article..

Ali Tehrani

SPOTLIGHT: How Racially Diverse Are The Oscars, Really?

This article spotlights Ali Tehrani’s design process. This visualization was featured as Tableau’s Viz of the Day on April 26, 2021.Earlier this year, I came..

Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Eli Holder

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Eli Holder is principal of 3iap (3 is a pattern), where he helps clients design and..

Leon Bueno

Brazil Deforests the Amazon by Areas Equivalent to the Size of 230 Manhattans Annually

The Amazon is important not just for Brazil, but also for the whole world. Here are four of the many reasons:1) PrecipitationThrough transpiration, the Amazon..

Gwen Agbota

SPOTLIGHT: Visualizing the Political Regimes in the World

Gwen’s visualization won second place in this year’s Data Visualization Society Black In Data challenge. Like most people on the planet last year, I was..

Fredrick Boshe

Three Reasons Why It Is Time to Adopt a Seafood Diet

Human diets can be as unique as fingerprints. We all have our quirks, from general preferences like red meat to vegetarian or vegan to finer..

Claire Santoro

Meet the Nightingale Editors

Ever wondered who’s working behind the scenes to get your articles ready for publication at Nightingale? Over a few issues of The ‘Gale, republished here,..

Jason Forrest

REVIEW: Julie Mehretu, New Museum of American Art

We are all conglomerations of our influences, remembrances, and fascinations but few artists have assembled them on as vast a scale as Julie Mehretu. The..

Amanda Makulec

Announcing the Data Viz Society’s New Membership Opportunities

In February 2019, the Data Visualization Society launched with a website, a Google form, and a vision from our three founders to be a tool-agnostic,..

Hilje de Boer

The Lie Factor and the Baseline Paradox

Within the history of data visualisation, there have been written numerous books with rules on how to properly visualise data. When I started off in..

Rajesh Sigdel

Using Infographics to Make Climate Change More Visible to the Public

Climate change may not be a directly observable phenomenon, but its impacts are currently threatening the lives of all living organisms. Although the majority of..

Jason Forrest & Mary Aviles

NIGHTINGALE IS FREE!

Last week Nightingale celebrated a major achievement. Since our launch in 2019, we always planned to have a stand-alone website and create a platform to..

Erica Gunn

Why Can’t We Have More Fun?

This is part 8 in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article reviewed chart choices..

Attila Batorfy

György Markos and His Pictorial Information Graphics

The Hungarian Marxist, self-made geographer, and economist György Markos (1902–1976) was not the first to introduce ISOTYPE to the Hungarian public, but he was the..

Jonathan Schwabish & Alice Feng

Six Ways to Bring Empathy into your Data

One of the big challenges in visualizing data, and quantitative research in general, is helping readers connect with the content. Connecting directly with people and..

Heather Jones

The Circle of Life in All Its Bizarre and Cruel Glory

I designed this spread when I worked in graphics at Time Magazine in May 2013. That year Brood II was emerging and I was totally fascinated by..

Month: June 2021