Tag: Charts

A column chart covering years 2018 to 2024 with each year's number increasing. On top of that is a line chart that is measuring the cumulative total of the column chart. In both charts low totals are in grey and large totals in green.R
Christopher Laubenthal

Rapid Fire: Scaling a Portfolio with Design Components

There are many ways that can speed your development cycle from data cleanliness to clarity of your user’s needs. My efficiency lay in the use of component-driven design.
A series of hand-drawn illustrations, images and icons on a tan background.F
Natalia Kiseleva

Flowers and Numbers

Explore the process of creating data visualization badges for a community using flowers and numbers. Creating a local data art community!
A circle filled with colors with different amounts of plotted points near each color.C
Tyler Sloan

Color Jitter: Using Randomness to Augment Categorical Visualizations

A colormap can enrich a story by anchoring the value mapping to our shared experience or symbolism.
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Liuhuaying Yang & Paul Kahn

Visualization Through Interdisciplinary Creativity

Complexity Science is a new scientific practice that is inherently interdisciplinary. It links state-of-the-art mathematics, modeling, data, and computer science with fundamental questions posed by various disciplines, such as medicine, economics, ecology, or social sciences.
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CLEVER°FRANKE

The Evolution and Future of Interactive Data Visualization (Part 3)

The Web 2.0 era saw the rise of user-generated content and interactivity, sparking new possibilities for interactive data visualizations.
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Alex Kolokolov

From Analysis to Improvement: How Students Transform Projects

A design exploration to improve a global conflict dashboard with a new layout and interactivity.
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Kristin Baumann

Recreating Historical Dataviz: Three Tricks I Learned In The Du Bois Data Visualization Challenge

With the analogy of a client project, I wanted to deliver the recreations as close to the original as possible using my tools of choice (D3.js and Svelte).
A three-part digital illustration where the flag of Japan slowly morphs into a bar chart.F
Darren Shearer

Flags and Figures

In both vexillology and data visualisation, the elegance lies in simplicity, the power in clarity, and the beauty in purposeful design.
Three images of Saturn's changing rings between 2023, 2024, and 2025, where the rings are most visible in 2023, less visible in 2024, and least visible in 2025.V
Samantha Nicklaus

Visualizing the History of Saturn and its Rings

In March 2025, Saturn’s rings will disappear. Well, this isn’t entirely true. NASA has confirmed that the rings will disappear, yes, but they will only disappear from Earth’s view.
A photo of the band Ghost in front of a visual music sound wave.V
Mackenzie Mercer

Visualizing Music Through Data: Are The Most Popular Ghost Songs Statistically More Metal?

Ghost, the Swedish satanic metal band that blew up during the summer of 2022 when their song “Mary On A Cross” went viral on TikTok, now has over 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify—rising from around 2 million before summer of 2021.
A landscape oriented, digital interface with several filters that maps the Free or Reduced Lunch status of public schools found in Kansas and Missouri.I
Christopher Laubenthal

Internal Design: Success Requires Form and Function

My journey with EdWise and the Career Explorer Tools taught me about generating change using innovative data visualization within an organization.
a man gives a presentation of charts and graphs to a room of people.W
Martynas Jočys

What to Consider When Considering the Audience

"Considering the audience" is one of the most important pieces of advice in storytelling and data visualization, but is can be a vague suggestion. This article turns this suggestion into a checklist you can go through to ensure your audience is considered.
Kangnido is the oldest world map in Korea and one of the oldest from East AsiaA
Jiwon Kim

A Brief and Inspiring History of Data Visualization in Korea

From Korea’s first world map to a data viz YouTube channel, these six pieces showcase the country's rich history of data visuals.
Close-up of a gridded heat map in orange and blue.D
Fernando Hannaka

Don’t Let Anxiety Get in the Way of Your Creative Process

Creating data visualization through trial and error can be nerve-racking. One project using unemployment data shows how the process pays off.
An image of a fake newspaper article that says "Mass Panic" and includes a map of red and blue states. Dogs wearing blue suits are on one side of the paper and cats wearing red are on the other.D
Eli Holder

Divisive Dataviz: How Political Data Journalism Divides Our Democracy

Recent dataviz research shows how the most popular tropes in political data journalism can distort the democratic process.
Square pieces of tree leaves organized by color.L
Victor Muñoz

Lessons from Physicalizing Data for a Better World

Autumn foliage colors inspired me to chart global temperature change. Here's how I created a data visual with leaves.