Month: July 2023

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Prasanta Kumar Dutta

Visualising the Spread of a Hypothetical Pandemic

Creating animated globe visuals required months of exploring data, playing with D3, leveraging several graphics tools—and a few clever hacks.
The front cover of Maarten Boers’s Data Visualization for Biomedical Scientists: Creating Tables and Graphs That Work, featuring a data visualization entitled “First wave covid-19” by Gert Jan Kocken which abstractly portrays data from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.R
Emilia Ruzicka

Review: Data Visualization for Biomedical Scientists by Maarten Boers

Author Maarten Boers teaches how to improve visualizations with before-and-after examples, and suggests a better way to show error on charts.
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Dario Rodighiero & University of Groningen Students

Exploring the Data Visualization Landscape: S-H-O-W 2023 Conference Highlights

The S-H-O-W conference instilled a vision for growth and impact of data visualization. Here are some key takeaways from student attendees.
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Amy Cesal & Amanda Makulec

Teaching the Foundations of Data Visualization 

Thinking about teaching data viz? DVS co-founders Amy Cesal and Amanda Makulec share their thoughts on developing an overview class.
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Fe Simeoni

Querying the Quantification of the Queer: A New Data Structure for Gender Spectra

As long as binary designations continue to be used, queer individuals will be misrepresented. Here's a redesigned gender data structure.
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Emily Barone & Frank Elavsky

A New Vision for Data Viz Accessibility

As the data viz industry becomes more aware of the barriers it creates for blind and visually impaired people, things are starting to change.
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Nightingale Editors

Nightingale Is Turning Four! Here’s Why We’re Celebrating

Break out the champagne because Nightingale is celebrating our fourth birthday on July 15th! Here are some of our highlights from the past year.
Grid showing dozens of screens from the Economist Impact data design system slide deck. Charts are not legible but are shown as small thumbnails, largely using shades of reds and blues to match the bright red of the Economist Impact logo.C
Ben Willers

Creating a Design System to Prevent Problematic Colour Pairings

The data design system at Economist Impact needed to ensure charts were clear, insightful, and accessible—which led to a new colour tool. 
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Nightingale Editors

Making Visual Accessibility Part of Your Data Viz Practice

Data journalists Jaime Tanner and Johny Cassidy chat about the milestones and challenges they see in making data viz visually accessible.