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Sarah Steimer

Peter Grundy on Informative, Fun, and Elegant Design

Learn how Peter Grundy, 40-year information design veteran, educates his audience through cheery, simple illustrations.
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: A Guided Virtual Tour of ‘Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination’

Like inventors, explorers, and philosophers, data visualizers have honed their craft through experimentation, abject failure, breakthrough moments, pushing boundaries, and by standing on the shoulders..
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Mary Aviles

Three Questions with… RJ Andrews

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. On September 25, 2020, the virtual doors of the Stanford Libraries’ swung open to reveal the..
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Will Chase

Constructing a Career in Dataviz: Finding Success

My father grew up on a farm in rural Kansas. His father and grandfather were both builders, and growing up on the farm, he gained..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. This issue’s installment of “Three Questions With …” is a double feature! Today we’re chatting..
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Will Chase

Constructing a Career in Data Visualization: The How

In my first essay, I touted my status as a “self-taught” designer and developer — this was a lie. Or rather, a mischaracterization, for almost no..
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Mary Aviles

Thoughtful Design: The Power of Naive Optimism

I hope that I am raising my three children to be inquisitive, innovative thinkers (and also good humans!). Design thinking was not a capital-T Thing..
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Silvia Romanelli

Why Should Non-Profits Add Data Visualisation to their Communication Toolkit?

After the corporate sector and journalism, non-profit organisations are slowly starting to put their data to use and visualise it—for example, using numbers, maps, and..
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Will Chase

Constructing a Career in Dataviz: Getting Started

In 1984, when my parents were searching for their first home together, my dad decided the best solution — given their limited budget — was..
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Mary Aviles

Data Visualization As an Act of Witnessing

In late 2016, I read an article by Michael Brennan, principal of Detroit-based, nonprofit design firm Civilla, in the Harvard Business Review. I was haunted by this line: “I..
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Emilia Ruzicka

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..
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Jason Forrest

How I Became Myself Again: What Writing Did for My Self-Worth in 2019

I love year-end lists not only to learn about the best movies, books, articles, and events of the previous year but also because I really..
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Neil Richards

Avoiding Data Pitfalls — an Interview With Ben Jones

We caught up with Ben Jones, the founder and CEO of Data Literacy, and spoke to him about his recent book, Avoiding Data Pitfalls. Ben’s book..
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Lorenzo Amabili

Data-Driven Storytelling: A Short Review

Researching how to leverage visual storytelling for medical imaging data analysis, I was looking for a road map to obtain a more structured and solid..
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Neil Richards

Encode 2019: Our Round-up of Round-ups

Last month, the inaugural Encode conference took place in London. The conference focused on the pillars of design, education, and journalism within data visualisation. A..
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Allen Hillary

Michelle Rial’s New Book Dreams of Being on Your Coffee Table

Michelle Rial is a San Francisco–based information designer who readily admits she has a slight obsession with charts. Her works of art have been featured..