Month: October 2023

A close-up image of symbols, like colored x's and o's on a series of lines each representing a day.T
Heather Jones

The Siren Project: A Daily Account of Pandemic Sounds

Designer Heather Jones documented New York City's sounds during the pandemic, then created a visualization that reads like a musical score.
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Adrianna Janik

Visualizing Emotions with Color Cubes

Using two different data sets, I leveraged color and 3-D structure to visualize the complexity and breadth of human emotion.
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Joshua Pine

Book Review: “People and Data: Uniting to Transform Your Business”

Thomas C. Redman's book provides strategic advice to corporate leadership about how to engage all workers in the data process.
The Double Diamond design model has four stages: Ideate, Focus, Build/Produce and Delivery. In the double diamond, there's an arrow pointing to the very center of the two diamonds, which is right between Focus and Build. The callout text explains that this is where you plan for what to do and how to tackle (at least some of) it.S
Erica Gunn

Step 7 in the Data Exploration Journey: Spin-Off Projects

With large projects, it's common to pursue spin-off ideas for the material that doesn't fit into the core project. Here are two examples.
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Poon Lee

Nightingale meets the data viz community! Today, we hear from information designer Poon Lee.
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Brittany Rosenau

Data, Viz, + Design Delights | September 2023

A curated collection of links from across the web.
A series of white straight lines and squiggles on a black background.S
Romana Popocovski

Starting From Visualisation: Lines and Squiggles That Lead to a Nobel Prize

How one man's unconventional thinking and use of simple visuals transformed the way physicists were tackling quantum interactions.
A dashboard with a big red "Redesign" stamp over it. A cartoonish crown hangs on the dashboard's top right corner.H
Alex Kolokolov

How I Took Off My Dashboard Crown and Admitted My Mistakes

An intern ripped apart a dashboard that I had considered a model of good design. I chose to swallow my pride and learn from the experience.
Data visualization represents a week of moods. Each donut symbolizes a factor contributing to my emotional highs and lows. The cinnamon donuts below the weekday labels signify negative emotions, while the glazed donuts above indicate positive emotions.C
Xindeling Pan

Capturing Life’s Ups and Downs in Data Mood Journals

Drawing my personal moods and emotions pushes me to think out of the box, exploring creative ways to represent them visually.
Pages of the New York Times with maps of the United States filled with dots of varying densities. Some maps have county lines, others have state lines.C
TK Sajeev Kumar

Capturing One Million Deaths on a Page: A Chat with NYT’s Carrie Mifsud

Carrie Mifsud of "The New York Times" talks about her award-winning front (and back) page design to commemorate one million COVID deaths.
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Claudia Berger & Chris Alen Sula

Crafting Connections: Lessons from Installing a Data Physicalization

The challenges and successes of making a physical data visualization, from initial conceptualization through installation.