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Gulrez Khan

Drawing Data with Kids

For many of us, the pandemic has merged the two worlds of “home” and “office.” On the rare occasions that I used to work from..

Andy Krackov

Dashboards Are Not Data Stories

A few months ago, a longtime client asked if my data communication consultancy could build out a dashboard display for health collaboratives in California doing..

Nick Desbarats

I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?

tl;dr: After having explained how to read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not workshop..

Jorge Camões

Histórias Aterradoras em Visualização de Dados: Jorge Camões

Read this article in English here. Alguma vez cometeu um erro constrangedor numa visualização de dados? Passou por completo ao lado da visão do cliente..

Jorge Camões

Dataviz Horror Stories: Jorge Camões

Leia este artigo em portugues aqui. Have you ever made an embarrassing mistake in a data visualization? Did you utterly fail to meet your client’s or..

Or Misgav

How I Survived Being a New Mum Using My Dataviz Goggles

I found out that I was pregnant with my first child in the middle of the first lockdown. I was sitting at my favourite spot..

Alex Rich

How to Iterate on a CDC Health Advisory Graphic

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has had its hands full for the last year and a half. It’s an agency full of talented,..

Nancy Organ

THE KIDS’ TABLE: Draw Along Dataviz

Welcome to Draw Along Dataviz!This article is part of The Kids’ Table section on kids dataviz. This section of Nightingale is filled with mini-lessons and..

Walter Paixão Côrtes

How I Used Data Visualization to Showcase My Career Trajectory

In our professional lives, every now and then we have opportunities to share our career trajectory with different audiences. For example, we may share with..

Jonathan Dunne

Endless River: An Overview of Dataviz for Categorical Data

Let us explore some flow and network chart types that are ready-made for visual storytelling using categorical data As a data scientist, I am surrounded..

Erica Gunn

The Why, the What, and the How in Dataviz

This is part nine in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article took a deep..

Leon Bueno

Brazil Deforests the Amazon by Areas Equivalent to the Size of 230 Manhattans Annually

The Amazon is important not just for Brazil, but also for the whole world. Here are four of the many reasons:1) PrecipitationThrough transpiration, the Amazon..

Fredrick Boshe

Three Reasons Why It Is Time to Adopt a Seafood Diet

Human diets can be as unique as fingerprints. We all have our quirks, from general preferences like red meat to vegetarian or vegan to finer..

Rajesh Sigdel

Using Infographics to Make Climate Change More Visible to the Public

Climate change may not be a directly observable phenomenon, but its impacts are currently threatening the lives of all living organisms. Although the majority of..