Month: August 2024

A book cover titled "Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI" by Nell Watson. The cover features a dark blue background with the title text in large, light blue and white font. Below the title is an abstract, wavy line graphic, representing the flow of information or signals. The author's name is at the bottom in bold white text. The Kogan Page logo is in the lower right corner. The background outside the book cover is a light blue field with a pattern of black dots creating a wavy, grid-like effect, enhancing the sense of digital or AI-related content.R
Catherine Ramsdell

Review of Nell Watson’s Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI

With terms like artificial super intelligence, brain-computer interface, and cyborg models peppered throughout, Nell Watson’s book Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI..
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Mark Mohammadpour, APR, Fellow PRSA (he/him)

Cultivating Empathy in Data Stories

Oxford Dictionary defines empathy as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” The last few years have highlighted the importance of experiencing..
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Nightingale Editors

DVS Mentor Spotlight: Mikael Dewabrata

The Data Visualization Society’s Mentorship Program has been instrumental in shaping the paths of aspiring individuals in our community. The mentors who make up this..
A stylized 3D representation of a data distribution, featuring a bell-shaped curve with human-like icons on top of different segments, highlighting varying demographics.A
Darren Shearer

Above the Averages

When analysing workforce data, age is often a critical metric that provides insight into the overall health and future trajectory of an organisation. However, simply..
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Kelsey Dufresne & Mary Downs

‘The Data Diaries’: Encoding Memories in a Quilt

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A vibrant digital illustration with a surreal and playful design. The background is a bright turquoise. On the left side, there is a classical-style grayscale statue of a woman holding up a cocktail glass with an orange slice. The statue is wearing modern orange sunglasses. The number '#4' is prominently displayed in large red text in the top left corner, with the phrase 'Good morning data' below it in a stylized, red box. To the right, the title 'The vacation paradox' is written in bold, black text. Below the title, a smaller line of text reads 'A new column by Datacitron in Nightingale!' The composition combines classic art with modern, whimsical elements.G
datacitron

Good Morning Data #4 | The Vacation Paradox

The Vacation Paradox or “Why are we the most productive when we’re off?“ The domino set was missing its double 5 as well as the..
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RJ Andrews

Colossal Chronography: Frances Harriet Lightfoot’s 1831 Marvel

Republished from https://www.chartography.net/p/colossal-chronography One reason to envy information designers of yesterday is the big canvases they got to play with. Look at this 1831 timeline..
A man in the countryside holds a laptop while standing, his daughter wrapped around his legs.F
Massimiliano Belli

Finding Balance: My Remote Work Story from Italy

Research from the OECD Better Life Index shows that a significant portion of people in OECD countries are not satisfied with their work-life balance and..
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Bahareh Zahirodini & Moinak Bhaduri

The Stuff We Cannot Sweep Under a Torn Carpet: Perfectly Imperfect Tessellations From Slices of Maslow’s Triangle

Few folks doubt the value of repetitions in any information-giving context. Shrewdly deployed, repetitions can be a powerful tool to ensure something stays memorable. Comedians..
Collected search results from the Kaggle data website showing 361,880 datasets .A
Christopher Laubenthal

AUGH! WHY IS THIS DIFFICULT? Picking a Dataset to Viz

“If you give a donkey two servings of food, equidistant apart and of equal quality, then the animal starves.” This was a saying I heard..