Month: July 2024

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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Nancy Organ

on her new book, Data Visualization for People of All AgesNancy Organ is a Seattle-based data visualization practitioner and author of Data Visualization for People..
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Nightingale Editors

Five Years of the Nightingale Community!

In July 2019, a new publication emerged in the world of data visualization. Nightingale set out to fill a void in the community, offering a..
Diamond-shaped flowchart illustrating project stages from "Expand/Ideate" to "Deliver/Deploy," highlighting points of maximum risk of overwhelm and exhaustion.S
Erica Gunn

Step 9 in the Data Exploration Journey: Chart Choices

Both the purpose and the audience for our charts shifted during that transition, and it was important to think carefully about what we needed the charts to do.
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Shri Khalpada

‘The Data Diaries’: Building a Viral Interactive Visualization of Wordle

I’ve been an avid Wordle player for a few years now. As a daily ritual, it gives me an easy way to get my brain..
Picture of the author and an extract of the data visualization with the Data Portraits of Digital Nomads at the Bansko Nomad Fest. The visualization showcases various aspects of the nomads' preferences and backgrounds.F
Victor Muñoz

Facing Shyness with Data Art

Hi, my name is Victor, and I want to share my experience using data art to overcome my social anxiety and make connections at the Bansko Nomad Fest.
Digital collage illustration featuring a Renaissance-style portrait of a woman, juxtaposed with modern graphical elements. She holds a window alert box that says 'MISSING DATA' with an 'OK' button. The background is bright yellow with blue grid patterns. Bold text reads '#3 Good morning data' and 'The c(h)art before the horse.' The design promotes 'A new column by Datacitron in Nightingale!'G
datacitron

Good Morning Data #3 | The C(h)art Before the Horse

I guess we all need to start somewhere, usually from a familiar spot, and mine is obviously design. I find it not always easy to embrace but I try to see it as a valid starting point, as long as I don’t forget the rest
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Aura Walmer

‘The Data Diaries’: Data Sonification of the Total Solar Eclipse

The process behind doing data sonification of the total solar eclipse.
A large dashboard full of enemies from the video game Super Mario Brothers in a straight line across the bottom. The center involves two charts that display the levels of various enemies in each world of the game.H
Christopher Laubenthal

Hidden Design: The Notes We Don’t Play

The complexity tooltips provide design has always held my attention. Tooltips are about the audience responding to our work! They allow us the opportunity to make certain information accessible indirectly, only discoverable if certain actions are taken.
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Annabelle Rincon

Dataviz Horror Story: Annabelle Rincon

When I was leading the centre of enablement for a financial company in Switzerland, I organized numerous activities, such as community meetings, webinars, skill belt programs, and monthly workout initiatives where users had to redo a visualization for which they only had a picture and a dataset.
A network graph representing connections between various entities, which are depicted as triangles of different colors. The triangles are connected by numerous blue lines indicating relationships or interactions between the entities. The colors and sizes of the triangles seem to represent different groups and their significance, with a legend on the left side: Blue triangles represent entities with values greater than 8K. Yellow triangles represent entities with values between 7K and 8K. Red triangles represent entities with values between 6K and 7K. The graph is highly interconnected, suggesting a complex web of relationships among the entities, each labeled with a unique identifier.H
Alice Zhang & Moinak Bhaduri

High Altitude Cartography

These interactive maps reveal that the difficulty of a climb is not solely dependent on a mountain's height, offering valuable insights for climbers in planning their expeditions and understanding the nuanced challenges they may face.