Month: November 2024

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William Careri

When the Data is Gone

When Cartoon Network abruptly erased its entire online archive, decades of web content vanished in an instant. At the same time, Boomerang, a platform that..
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Catherine Ramsdell

Racing Bar Charts: An Experiment in Interactive Storytelling

This fall I challenged students in a 200-level writing class to tell a story using a racing bar chart. It was an interesting experiment, and..
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Christopher Laubenthal

How to Share Memorable Data

Integrating data visualization into non-profit work is both a strategic advantage and an easy pitfall.The core of non-profit work, for me, is communication. Listening to..
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datacitron

Good Morning Data #7 | False Positives: The Imposter Syndrome in Dataviz

False Positives: The Imposter Syndrome in Dataviz or “Is imposter syndrome even curable?“It’s the moment I hate the most. The moment someone else introduces me,..
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Jennifer Li

Review | Business 101 for the Data Professional by Jordan Morrow

As the title suggests, this book is written for data professionals “looking to expand your career and move over to the business side of things”..
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Clare Harvey

Review: Data Visualization with Microsoft Power BI: How to Design Savvy Dashboards

Alex Kolokolov and Maxim Zelensky say that there are three types of vizzer—business analyst, infographic creator, and data journalist. Are you clear about which you..