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Taylor Johnston

What a Data Viz Mentor—And The Data Viz Community—Taught Me About Accessibility

My experience with the DVS Mentorship Program gave me technical and practical skills to carry forward.
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Dario Rodighiero & University of Groningen Students

Exploring the Data Visualization Landscape: S-H-O-W 2023 Conference Highlights

The S-H-O-W conference instilled a vision for growth and impact of data visualization. Here are some key takeaways from student attendees.
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India Johnson & Nightingale Editors

Dear Nightingale: Raveling Data

Can you transform a piece of fabric into a data viz by unraveling it? In this challenge, feel free to cut, pick, and pull meaning out of a textile.
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Nightingale Editors

Data Is Plural Visualization Challenge: Project Dialogism Novel Corpus

Ready to dig into a good book? This iteration of the Data Is Plural Visualization Challenge features the Project Dialogism Novel Corpus.
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Nightingale Editors & datacitron

More than “It Depends”: Behind the scenes on Nightingale magazine issue 3, Guidelines

How did our data viz "Guidelines" issue turn out? Our editors and Creative Director debrief on the behind-the-scenes!
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TK Sajeev Kumar

Marcelo Duhalde’s Graphics Bring Journalistic Investigations to Life

From plane crashes to coffin houses, Marcelo Duhalde uses infographics to explore and explain stories for the South China Morning Post.
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Jiwon Kim

A Call to Women in Data Viz: Be a Techmakers Ambassador

After attending two conferences in May—DVS's Outlier and Google's I/O—Jiwon Kim reflects on how women can become more visible in tech fields.
Cohabitation network (a collection of circled nodes connected by lines) where each node is a mammal. There are 5,286 nodes and 62,385 edges colored by the continent of the animal's primary habitat. The colors are shades of browns, blues and grays. The nodes are more clustered by color here than in the country-level network.U
Milán Janosov

Using Color to Interpret a Complex Network of Threatened Species

In a busy network diagram of threatened land mammals, different color treatments show how the animals' habitats are geographically connected.
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TK Sajeev Kumar

A Chat With New York Times Graphics Editor Marco Hernandez

Journalist Marco Hernandez shares tips on graphic storytelling, why you should doodle, and how to visualize 4 billion plastic bottles.
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Marília Ferreira da Cunha

Everything You Wanted To Know About The DVS 2023 Outlier Conference

Outlier is around the corner! Catch up on what's on the agenda and how to make the most out of the experience—whether in-person or virtual.
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Teresa Hebron

Why Me? Or, How I Learned to Sew a Quilt from Ice Skating Stats

I was anxious about teaching a data viz workshop that involved data crafting. I pulled it off by transforming my favorite sport into a quilt.
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions With… Monica Gragg

A quick introduction to Monica Gragg, who recently became education director at the Data Visualization Society.
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Nightingale Editors

Dear Nightingale Submissions: Physical Inspiration Train

This data visualization challenge was to create a "physical inspiration train" quantifying objects' attributes. Check out the submissions!
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Nightingale Editors

Data Is Plural Submissions: Bob Ross

This data viz challenge prompted readers to explore two data sets on Bob Ross's iconic television show. Check out the submissions!
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Cédric Scherer

The #30DayChartChallenge Is Ready to Kick Off

The #30DayChartChallenge is a data visualization community challenge to create a visualization on a particular theme each day in April. The challenge began in 2021 and is about to launch its third year.
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Guillermina Sutter Schneider

Nightingale meets the dataviz community! Today, we're hearing from data scientist and information designer Guillermina Sutter Schneider.