Month: September 2023

Photograph of "Electricity generated or demanded in Manchester, 1951–1954." This type of visualization is known as a "load model", which represents power consumption in three dimensions. Each day is represented as a piece of cardboard, with the top edge of the cardboard cut away to form a column chart with the height of each column representing electricity demand over 30 minutes. The daily cards are stacked tightly together, so the tops create a 3-dimensional surface that indicates power usage over several years.T
Robert Simmon

The Power Behind Physical, 3-D Visualizations

How 3-D representations offer a quicker and deeper understanding of our world than symbols or abstractions in 2-D visualizations.
Two images side by side, depicting the same event: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban meeting with Pope Francis. The left image showing the actual meeting, while the right image is a depiction generated by Midjourney AI.M
Krisztián Szabó

Making “The Pope on the Road,” an AI-Driven Interactive Site

Using ChatGPT and AI-generated images to build a scrollytelling story about Pope Francis's visit to Hungary.
Hyper-realistic AI-generated image depicting a people's eyes gazing intently at intricate graphs and data, blending human and technological perspectives.M
Erdni Okonov

Making Dashboards Optimal for Human Brain Processing

How the science behind brain processing and active memory can help guide our dashboard and other data visual designs.
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Kim Albrecht

Visualizing ChatGPT’s Worldview

Using prompting and data visualization to make sense of Machine Learning systems.
Book cover of Drawing Data With Kids, showing a father doing art with a young girl in a green headscarfR
Joseph Mackereth

Review: Drawing Data with Kids

The book "Drawing Data with Kids" makes data visualization accessible, low-tech, and something the whole family can do—no screens required.
A conceptual image of a hammer overlayed with a series of trendlines all spiking up and shooting down. On top of the lines are a bunch of speech bubbles that all say "data storytelling!"H
Amanda Makulec

Has Data Storytelling Reached Its Peak?

"Data storytelling" has become an overhyped, catch-all term. Here’s how to align data storytelling expectations with colleagues and clients.
A simple sketch with 3D columns, 3 red and 4 black, grouped loosely together with some in front of others.S
Will Stahl-Timmins & Nadieh Bremer

Showing Human Stories Behind Data Points

Will Stahl-Timmins was struggling to visualize groups of people in a humanizing way. Then he heard Nadieh Bremer's tips on data aggregation.
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Milán Janosov

Decoding the Manhattan Project’s Network: Unveiling Science, Collaboration, and Human Legacy

A data viz that unveils the science and human legacy of the Manhattan Project, one of the largest ever scientific collaborations.
Line chart elements on the dashboard resemble pasta sticks on a plate. Delicious!W
Alex Kolokolov

When Charts Looks Like Spaghetti, Try These Saucy Solutions

Tangled heaps of lines and numbers are a recipe for disaster. Here's how to make a dashboard with more visually appetizing charts.
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Arlene Birt

The Future of the Creative Process Is Increased Collaboration

More than 60 scientists and I co-designed data visualizations for a major climate report. Here are key lessons from that experience.
Animated stacked triangle visualization showing the goal progress of a water polo matchH
Krisztina Szucs

How to Create Animated Stacked Triangle Charts Without Code

With Plot Parade you can make a stacked triangle chart without code. The tool can also turn the chart into a GIF animation. Here's how.
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Nightingale Editors

Dear Nightingale Submissions: Raveling Data

Check out submissions to the challenge to transform a piece of fabric into data viz by cutting, picking, or pulling it apart.