Emilia Ruzicka

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Review: “Our Environment” by the Data Science x Design Collective

Our Environment, the newest installment in the Data Science x Design Collective’s series of anthologies, is a delightful collection of essays, zines, fictional short stories, and reflections on the data-fied world around and inside each of us.
A book cover with the title "Chart Spark: Harness your creativity in data communication to stand out & innovate by Alli Torban" A lightning bolt going through a pie chart covers the right side of the cover while the title Chart Spark is repeated going down the left.R
Emilia Ruzicka

Review: “Chart Spark” by Alli Torban

In Alli Torban’s new book, Chart Spark, she tackles this issue of perceived creativity block and shares her own creative journey while providing tips, prompts, and encouragement to readers.
The front cover of Maarten Boers’s Data Visualization for Biomedical Scientists: Creating Tables and Graphs That Work, featuring a data visualization entitled “First wave covid-19” by Gert Jan Kocken which abstractly portrays data from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.R
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Review: Data Visualization for Biomedical Scientists by Maarten Boers

Author Maarten Boers teaches how to improve visualizations with before-and-after examples, and suggests a better way to show error on charts.
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Plan Planet: Part 6 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the sixth installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the fifth part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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You’ve Got Mail: Part 5 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fifth installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the fourth part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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Are You Not Entertained?: Part 4 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fourth installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the third part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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All in a Day’s Work: Part 3 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

This is the third installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the second part before jumping in, here’s the article about my..
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Moving Right Along: Part 2 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

This is the second installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the first part before diving in, here’s the article about my..
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Food for Thought: Part 1 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

Hello! I’m a student, data journalist, and designer with a love for all things dataviz. In accordance with annual traditions, I spent a lot of..
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Racial Bias in Code and Data: An Interview with Alex Garcia

As a young data journalist, I was advised to attend NICAR — an annual data journalism conference organized by Investigative Editors and Reporters and their suborganization, the National..