Month: June 2023

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India Johnson & Nightingale Editors

Dear Nightingale: Raveling Data

Can you transform a piece of fabric into a data viz by unraveling it? In this challenge, feel free to cut, pick, and pull meaning out of a textile.
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Nightingale Editors

Data Is Plural Visualization Challenge: Project Dialogism Novel Corpus

Ready to dig into a good book? This iteration of the Data Is Plural Visualization Challenge features the Project Dialogism Novel Corpus.
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Nightingale Editors & datacitron

More than “It Depends”: Behind the scenes on Nightingale magazine issue 3, Guidelines

How did our data viz "Guidelines" issue turn out? Our editors and Creative Director debrief on the behind-the-scenes!
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Joceline Kuswanto

Looking East: Kontinentalist’s Design Principles Enhance the Asian Narrative

At Kontinentalist, strong guidelines empower designers to be adaptive, flexible, and responsive while remaining true to core values.
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TK Sajeev Kumar

Marcelo Duhalde’s Graphics Bring Journalistic Investigations to Life

From plane crashes to coffin houses, Marcelo Duhalde uses infographics to explore and explain stories for the South China Morning Post.
An image of a phone, open to a mock "Tinder" conversation that says "Hey I think your hot," and a response of, "Ew." The bottom of the screen says "This user has been blocked from viewing your profile.W
Victoria Radnothy

Worth the Right Swipe? Using Data to Find Love on Dating Apps

Curious about online dating life but hesitant to try out the apps, a love-seeker visualizes dating data to boost chances of success.
A highly complex graphic where the x-axis is population density (people per km^2) and the y-axis is energy consumption per person (kWh/d/p) Both axis are onlog scales. The countries are shown as colored bubbles that are sized according to land area. Diagonal lines show power consumption per unit of area.D
Satya Amaran

Defying Chart Design Rules for Clearer Data Insights

Sir David MacKay, a UK scientist, challenged conventional chart design and created a truly insightful data visualization about sustainable energy.
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Jiwon Kim

A Call to Women in Data Viz: Be a Techmakers Ambassador

After attending two conferences in May—DVS's Outlier and Google's I/O—Jiwon Kim reflects on how women can become more visible in tech fields.
Photo of students grouping colored squared pieces of paper together on a table.W
Antonia Hadjimichael

Weaving Data Viz Into Science and Engineering Education

A Penn State course introduced STEM students to data visualization, teaching them design fundamentals and how to be supportive practitioners.
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Elena Etter

Data Visualization: A Subjective Lens on Reality

An analysis of three elements that influence data visualization  and that render the underlying data to be more subjective than objective.