Month: May 2023

A photo of the wall straight-on, with a sign that says "The National COVID Memorial Wall."T
Duncan Bradley

Taking Time Is an Effective Way To Process Large Numbers

A striking memorial to the victims of COVID-19 in the UK reveals a neglected temporal dimension of data visualisation.
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Matteo Moretti & Alice Corona

Who’s on the Map? Using Data to Reimagine Street Name Diversity

In 145,933 streets in 30 major European cities and 17 different countries, our team explores who is included and who is excluded in our toponymy.
Cover of the Book "Friends Beyond Measure" featuring an illustration of two children sitting on a stack of multi-colored bars. One of the children is drawing dots on the wall behind them.L
Ana Paula Lamberti Bertol

Lalena Fisher: Telling A Children’s Story With Infographics

An interview with children's author Lalena Fisher, whose latest book introduces kids to charts and diagrams that tell a story of friendship.
yellow map showing the tour de france, but our of beer glass iconsB
Dan Petrovic

Building a Tour de France Beer Map With GPT-4: A Non-Developer’s Perspective

As a non-developer, it was challenging using GPT-4 to build a data visualization. Here are my lessons learned about working with the AI tool.
Data visualisation self-portrait. An abstract painting created by Thabata from Data Rocks, using graphite, ink and watercolours.I
Thabata Romanowski

Is It Data? Is It Art? It’s a Data Self-Portrait!

To step away from the constraints of her day job, a data vis practitioner made an introspective art piece with tools she hadn't used before.
A photo of the Outlier presentation stage in Porto, with a projector screen three chairs, a podium and an physical "Outlier" letter blocks set on the floor.O
Nightingale Editors

Outlier 2023: Changing the World, One Chart at a Time

DVS's 2023 Outlier Conference was held in Porto, Portugal, and virtually in early May. Here's what a few attendees say about the experience.
An isometric illustration of a library, filled with books and coworking tables, is enclosed by yellow police tape which read "lockdown."H
William Careri

Hachette v. Internet Archive and the Future of Data Access

A legal ruling raises issues about fair use in storing knowledge, the role of digital libraries, and balancing copyrights with open access.
Photo of fellowship recipients posing with leaders of Baraza Media Lab and Fringe Graph (10 people).D
June Injete

Data Storytelling Is Empowering Female Journalists in Kenya

A fellowship program is teaching Kenyan journalists to use data sources and data analysis to do investigative work. Here are three examples.
A view of the final dashboard. At the top are the filter buttons to select countries by characteristics (region or income) and a shuffle button that randomized the selection for you. Below that is the radial diagram and to its right is a dot plot, allowing for a deeper dive into the metric.F
Lindsey Poulter

Finding The Right Elements For an Award-Winning Dashboard

Lindsey Poulter won the World Data Viz Prize using a mix of dashboard features—including a shuffle button to randomize the view.
Details from an infographic and magazine article, showing the Warming Stripes on a page in the background with another page showing a red-and-blue polar bar chart laying over the topT
Chesca Kirkland

The Making of “The Growing Influence of the Warming Stripes”

Chesca Kirkland shows the process behind her visualisation—from Nightingale Issue 2—that explores the growing influence of the Warming Stripes.