Month: January 2022

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Evelina Judeikytė

Submit Your Work for the Outlier Viz Exhibit!

Are you looking for a space to share your work and get inspired by the work of other data visualization designers? You can submit your..
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Evelina Judeikytė

Host an Unconference Session!

We acknowledge that some folks who applied to speak and were not selected may feel disappointed, and we totally understand that. If time and budget..
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Mollie Pettit

Creating an Inclusive Global Dataviz Conference

It’s amazing to me to think that Amy, Elijah, and I launched The Data Visualization Society just three years ago. I am now about to..
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Anda Lupascu

Big Data, Cute Story

Happy New Year to all! As January ticks on, I think we are all familiar with the contestable tradition of the New Year Resolution. But..
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Neil Richards

REVIEW: How Can We Use Comics to Tell Data Stories?

This post is a review of From Data to Stories, a book from Richie Lionell and Ramya Mylavarapu of Gramener, described on its front page..
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: Detroit in 50 Maps by Alex B. Hill

In professional and community circles, Detroit can sometimes feel like a small town. I started hearing about Alex B. Hill and his site, Detroitography, early..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Chuck Burke

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale, Nightingale’s biweekly newsletter. Chuck Burke is a multidisciplinary information designer with a background in explanatory journalism and academic publishing;..
Hand-drawn icons of care actions like cooking, cleaning, and listening, scattered around the question "How do we measure unpaid labor?"S
Eva Sibinga

SPOTLIGHT: How Do We Measure Unpaid Labor?

I thought a lot about labor and care in the winter and spring of 2021. Like many other people, I spent most of that time..
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Evelina Judeikytė & Yi Ning Wong

Outlier 2022: The Speaker Lineup

Outlier 2022 is coming up and we are so excited to show you what we’ve been preparing this past year. Whether you’re joining us for..
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Martina Zunica

SPOTLIGHT: 100 Days of Happiness

2022 has just started and I’m taking stock of the last year, of achievements, loved ones, and things to work on. Have I lived at..
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Claire Santoro

Getting to know… Jarrett C. Hurms

The dataviz community is broad and encompasses practitioners from a range of backgrounds, professions, and interests. In an effort to get to know the community,..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Very Peri Pantone 2022 for Your Visualizations

In early December 2021, Very Peri was announced as the 2022 Pantone Color of the Year. Today, let’s explore how to integrate this new color..
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Kristin Briney

Crafting a COVID Visualization: How I Processed Pandemic Anxiety and Grief with Yarn

I spent December 2020 recovering from COVID. I got sick via an outbreak at my children’s daycare during the third U.S. COVID wave that overwhelmed..
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Evelina Judeikytė

Send Us Your Lightning Talks!

We acknowledge that some folks who applied to speak and were not selected may feel disappointed, and we totally understand that. If time and budget..
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Vladimir Laptev

Information Graphics in Action: Russian Agitational Postcards 1900–1960

The postcard originated in the middle of the XIX century and went through the development path together with the poster, following stylistic changes in the..
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Danièle Gibney

Crossing into Datavis

For the past year or so, I’ve been using cross stitch as a medium to develop my interest in data visualisation. Here’s a run-down of..