Month: April 2024

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Natalia Kiseleva

Flowers and Numbers

Explore the process of creating data visualization badges for a community using flowers and numbers. Creating a local data art community!
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Tyler Sloan

Color Jitter: Using Randomness to Augment Categorical Visualizations

A colormap can enrich a story by anchoring the value mapping to our shared experience or symbolism.
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CLEVER°FRANKE

The evolution and future of interactive data visualization (Part 4)

The Web 3.0 era saw the start of the decentralized, user-owned and immersive web, creating new possibilities for interactive data viz.
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Liuhuaying Yang & Paul Kahn

Visualization Through Interdisciplinary Creativity

Complexity Science is a new scientific practice that is inherently interdisciplinary. It links state-of-the-art mathematics, modeling, data, and computer science with fundamental questions posed by various disciplines, such as medicine, economics, ecology, or social sciences.
A scanned book title page, which reads "American Slavery. As It Is: Testimony of A Thousand Witnesses" The cover is laying on top of a blurry newspaper spread.N
Anca Sarb

Navigating Data for Social Change: Lessons from the Abolitionists’ Database Project

Drawing from the abolitionists’ database project, we identify five key lessons about data collection, analysis, and advocacy.
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CLEVER°FRANKE

The Evolution and Future of Interactive Data Visualization (Part 3)

The Web 2.0 era saw the rise of user-generated content and interactivity, sparking new possibilities for interactive data visualizations.
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Alex Kolokolov

From Analysis to Improvement: How Students Transform Projects

A design exploration to improve a global conflict dashboard with a new layout and interactivity.
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Kristin Baumann

Recreating Historical Dataviz: Three Tricks I Learned In The Du Bois Data Visualization Challenge

With the analogy of a client project, I wanted to deliver the recreations as close to the original as possible using my tools of choice (D3.js and Svelte).
A row of headshots, each of new DVS board members, with a colored circle around each respectively. The DVS logo sits behind the headshots.3
Nightingale Editors

3 Data Points from New DVS Board Members

The start to 2024 saw the induction of seven new Data Visualization Society board members. As they begin their respective duties to elevate DVS, we wanted to offer them the chance to introduce themselves, asking them a few questions along the way. Get to know the new DVS board members!
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CLEVER°FRANKE

The Evolution and Future of Interactive Data Visualization (Part 2)

The second installment in a series on the evolution and future of interactive data visualization. The early years of the internet.
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Darren Shearer

Flags and Figures

In both vexillology and data visualisation, the elegance lies in simplicity, the power in clarity, and the beauty in purposeful design.
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Christopher Laubenthal

Stop Trying to Prove Yourself with a Viz

Every data visualization job that I have held has included introducing my work to teammates and then feeling like I have to impress them.
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CLEVER°FRANKE

The Evolution and Future of Interactive Data Visualization (Part 1)

As humans, we have always had the urge to chart the world around us. This urge has pushed us to improve the way we collect, process, and communicate information throughout history.