Month: August 2023

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Julia Büchting

Conquering Self Doubt After a Career Change

My transition from art to business analytics wasn't easy. Here's how I managed the transition and thrived.
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Nick Desbarats

Connected Scatterplots Make Me Feel Dumb

Connected scatterplots are often used to show the relation between two variables over time. Why use them when there are better alternatives?
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Elsa Richard

A Crowdsourced Geodata Project Is Aiding Education Efforts in Tanzania 

A geodata project helped diagnose problems with education access in Tanzania, allowing education stakeholders to devise solutions to boost school attendance.
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Nightingale Editors

Career Paths in Data Visualization

Portraits of different career areas, and profiles of people who work in data visualization.
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Erica Gunn

Step 6 in the Data Exploration Journey: Cut to Realistic Scope

A project to find insights from DVS's State of the Industry Survey data moves from the analysis stages to preparation for build out.
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Soha Elghany

Beyond Numbers: How Ethical Data Visualization Tells the Human Story

If you fail to show the human behind the data, you risk telling an incomplete and misleading tale, devoid of crucial information.
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Joshua Pine

An Interview with Jordan Morrow, Author of “Be Data Analytical”

In his latest book, Morrow explores how data can influence decision making. Here's a peek at what's inside—plus, a Q&A with the author.
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Or Misgav

Finding Solace in Tracking My First Trimester Nights

Through sleepless nights and overwhelming fatigue, I used data and art to discover my strength—and the beauty of resilience.
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TK Sajeev Kumar

Infographics Journalist Charles Apple on Making Effective Charts

Charles Apple, the "Further Review" page editor of The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, talks about graphics reporting.
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Kelsey Nanan

The Best Day… To Buy a Taylor Swift Ticket

A Taylor Swift fan with little hope of buying a concert ticket used her coding and data viz skills to make her Wildest Dreams come true.
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

The Generative AI Blues: Choosing Data Color Schemes with Adobe’s Firefly

Follow these steps to explore color choices with Adobe Firefly, a creative generative AI model. Plus: the color theory behind the process.
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Agnes Vilia, Aquila Adimurti, Regina Nurashari & Arran Ridley

Teaching Data Visualisation to Middle Schoolers in Jakarta

The class allowed students to see data as not just a result of gathering facts from the world, but as a tool to make meaning of reality.
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Matthew Mason & Massimiliano Belli

Step Aside Line Graphs And Bar Charts! This Is a Job For Me.

If line charts and bar charts don't quite fit the data, step charts can be a great alternative. Here's a primer on when—and how to—use them.
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Nightingale Editors

Magic Creature Rescue Mission

Hone your data visualization skills in this collaborative board game. Can you rescue the magical creatures before their powers are lost forever?
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Taylor Johnston

What a Data Viz Mentor—And The Data Viz Community—Taught Me About Accessibility

My experience with the DVS Mentorship Program gave me technical and practical skills to carry forward.