Tag: Community

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Annabelle Rincon

Dataviz Horror Story: Annabelle Rincon

When I was leading the centre of enablement for a financial company in Switzerland, I organized numerous activities, such as community meetings, webinars, skill belt programs, and monthly workout initiatives where users had to redo a visualization for which they only had a picture and a dataset.
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Alex Kolokolov

Data Breakfast with the Analytics Family! Data Syrniki, and Pancake Charts

The idea was so well-received by the guests that several teams formed and they organized a competition for baking dashboards! Bar charts, pie charts, and line charts were created, along with real, not just playful, pancake charts and data syrniki!
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Anna Ivashechkina

From Data to Yarn: Crocheting the Russian Football League’s 2022/23 Season

I crocheted 16 figures of footballers, one look at which will give an idea of how the Russian Premier League (RPL) club spent the 2022/23 season.
Digital cover image for 'Good Morning Data' column #2, featuring the title 'The client always rings twice.' The design includes a vintage black and white portrait of a woman holding a red telephone, set against a bright pink background with red grid lines. The text on the right reads 'A new column by Datacitron in Nightingale!' in bold, black font.G
datacitron

Good Morning Data #2 | The Client Always Rings Twice

Call me several times in a row and I will ghost you for a week but send me a zoom link and I will twist my ankle running to the digital meeting room. My point is, call me a post-pandemic millennial child freelancer if you want, but don’t call me.
100 or so people, most with backpacks, enter a large conference space simultaneously through industrial doors. The text above the doors reads, 'Keynote.'" Comment, "Tableau Conference is large and you feel it most in moments of conference-wide learning. This is a picture of everyone heading in for the keynote presentation.#
Christopher Laubenthal

#TC2024: Viz with 9,000+ People

This year I was able to book a ticket to in-person to this influential, data visualization event. What unfolded over the course of three days included deeply helpful insights, some awkward inaccessibility, and the event’s EMT staff.
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Nightingale Editors

Data Is Plural Submissions: Project Dialogism Novel Corpus

This data viz challenge prompted readers to explore literary dialog. Check out the submissions!
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Nightingale Editors

DVS Mentor Spotlight: Lior Lavi

To get to know Lior Lavi better, we asked him a series of questions so you can learn a bit more about a mentor making a difference.
This image features a striking design for a column titled "The mystery job," which discusses the daily work life of a "datadesigner." The background is a vivid orange, and the layout includes a mix of modern and classical elements. On the left, a classical artwork of a woman looking upwards is superimposed with a pie, replacing part of her head, creating a surreal and whimsical effect. The text "Good morning data" is placed at the top left corner in a playful, bold blue font. The main title, "The mystery job," is centrally located in large, bold, black letters. Additional information states the column is by "Datacitron" in "Nightingale," indicated at the bottom. The design uses sharp contrasts in colors and a mix of graphics to create an eye-catching and creative visual.G
datacitron

Good Morning Data #1 | The Mystery Job

How do we explain to those unfamiliar what we do as data visualization professionals and designers? Join datacitron is the first issue of this new column "Good Morning Data."
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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!
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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).
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Nightingale Editors

3 Data Points from New DVS Board Members

The start to 2024 saw the induction of seven new Data Visualization Society board members. As they begin their respective duties to elevate DVS, we wanted to offer them the chance to introduce themselves, asking them a few questions along the way. Get to know the new DVS board members!
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Teo Popescu

Teo Popescu is the new section editor of Nightingale. She is the creative manager at KUOW, one of the Seattle branches of National Public Radio.
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Alejandra Arevalo

Alejandra Arevalo is a Peruvian multimedia journalist and engineer based in San Francisco. A self-taught coder, she currently works as a developer at Hearst Newspapers where she focuses on data visualization and interactive storytelling.
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Kayla Marie

A Visual Compliment: Charting Kindness in Data

This story details and visualizes the time Kayla Marie set out to track how many compliments she gave in a week, but came away with having received almost as many as she gave.
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Emilia Ruzicka

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 which reads "The Data Storyteller's Handbook: How to create business impact using data storytelling by Kat Greenbrook" along with diverse illustrations of different people kindly interacting, a kiwi and a penguin.B
Neil Richards

Book Review – “The Data Storyteller’s Handbook”

Learn more about Kat Greenbrook's latest book while diving into her process behind its creation.