Month: July 2025

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Gulrez Khan

Data Doesn’t Have to Start with Spreadsheets. It Can Start with a Sneeze.

I was invited to an elementary school in the Bay Area to introduce kids to the wonderful world of data. A decade ago, I wouldn’t..
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Giuseppe Sollazzo

The Bus Station That Didn’t Exist, and Other Data Epiphanies

“Data is multidisciplinary” is my mantra—it’s 2025, and I’ve now worked 20 years in every possible flavour of data—data visualization, open data advocacy, data pipelines..
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Leonard Pierce

Flower Visualizations and the Uncertainty of New Parenthood

Developing understanding through visualizing newborn data Expecting parents are inundated with information about newborn health and all of the potential maladies that can befall them...
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Henry Ehlers, Daniel Pahr, Sara di Bartolomeo, Christina Stoiber & Velitchko Filipov

BattleGraphs: Forge, Fortify, and Fight in the Network Arena

Constructive visualization enables users to create personalized data representations and facilitates early insight generation and sensemaking. Based on NODKANT, a toolkit for creating physical network..
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Katie Anderson-Kelly

MyMatrescenceProject: Using “Data-Less” Data Visualisation to Explore My Experience of Motherhood

I don’t observe, collect, or draw, but the language of data visualisation is still helping me make sense of becoming a mother. Before becoming a..
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Lorenzo Amabili, Eduard Gröller & Renata G. Raidou

Leveraging Popular Board Games to Teach Data Visualization Through Play

What if your favorite board games didn’t just entertain you but also taught you how to interpret scatter plots, recognize chart types, and sharpen your..
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Andrew Gelman & Susan Kruglinski

Statistical Graphics and Comics: Parallel Histories of Visual Storytelling

What do data visualization and comics have in common? One of these is used to communicate in science and journalism, and the other appears in..