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Matt Brehmer

At the Vanguard of Interface Design

Implications for visualization from the 2022 UIST symposium The ways in which we interact with data and visualization may look and feel very different in..
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Or Misgav

SPOTLIGHT: Using Dataviz to Inform My Childcare Decisions

My son Ethan was 18-months old when he had his first daycare summer break. It was my first summer break as a mum, and I..
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Mrinal Ghosh

How to Locate and Understand the Reasons for Rising Land Surface Temperature

September 2022 has been one of the hottest Septembers in the last 143-years of global climate record, as per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..
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Joshua Pine

REVIEW: Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization by Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley

The multi-disciplinary nature of the data visualization profession presents opportunities for fruitful collaboration while also leading to points of tension. One such source of tension..
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Mark Palmer

How to Get Executives on Board with Data Visualization

Convincing senior executives to jump on the data visualization bandwagon isn’t as complicated as you think: here are five tips to get senior decision-makers on..
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Emma Tait

No Straight Lines: My Process Is Messy and Full of Failures and That’s Okay

The DVS Mentorship Program revolutionized my creative process: learning is iterative, failure is vital, growth comes in many forms, and straight lines are overrated.  No..
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Andriana Georgieva, Laura Meloni, Cesco Reale & Edgar Walthert

Say It in Icons! – The KomunIKON Project

My language limits are my world limits
A data visualisation showing the flights and fates of the Soviet Space Dogs. Each dog is represented by a circle. Circle size shows the number of flights they undertook and circle colour indicates whether they survived, while a coloured tail shows the gender of the dog. Flights are represented by triangles along a timeline at the bottom. Triangle height shows the flight altitude and triangle colour shows the rocket type used. Dogs are connected by lines to the flights that they flew on.D
Phoenix

Discovering Data Visualisation: How I Discovered and Fell in Love with Data Visualisation Art

I stumbled upon data visualisation art quite by accident early in 2022, at a time when I was at an interesting crossroads in my life...
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Salomé Esteves

“I Can’t Draw” and Other Conversations I Always Have with My Dataviz Students

When you, like me, have been teaching for a while, you realize there’s a fundamental paradox: no two clusters of students are alike, yet all..
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Miriam Quick

Dataviz Horror Story: Miriam Quick

Have you ever made an embarrassing mistake in a data visualization? Did you utterly fail to meet your client’s or boss’s vision? Did you proudly..
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Georgios Karamanis & Lee Olney

Playing Dataviz Tennis for Collaboration and Fun

Inspired by Layer Tennis, we collaborated on four data visualizations (four matches) where we swap the file back and forth adding to the work. Each..
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Karthik Muthuswamy

SPOTLIGHT: Do You Feel What Others Feel?

Emotions around the globe - Illustration by Gunilla Hagström
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Jenn Schilling

Making a Data Collage for Dear Nightingale: Paper and NO Pencil

SNEAK PEEK: Nightingale Issue 2 is in design now! We’re so excited for you to see how your community has interpreted the theme of “Inspiration.”..
Overhead shot showing two watch faces situated to the left and right of the middle of a sheet of paper. Around both faces run three circles of five types of watch parts corresponding to different activities. Handwritten annotations help to discern the meaning of each part, highlighting differences between the authors’ days, like how “unpaid work” for Tomi means getting up at night for his children, while for Julcsi it’s studying Japanese and for Pisti it’s cooking.W
Júlia Borsi, Tamás Varga & István Korompai

What’s a “Handmade Data Object” Anyway?

This is an unusual viz — for a variety of reasons — so here’s a quick guide to reading it: the two dials represent twelve..
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Krisztina Szucs

SPOTLIGHT: Animated Sports Results

This article is a summary of the animated data visualizations I’ve created for UEFA Euros 2020, Copa America, Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (fencing, swimming), 19th..
Bridget and Vidya holding their book “Functional Aesthetics or data visualizationF
Noëlle Rakotondravony

Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization: A Behind-the-Scene Q&A with the Authors

If you ever wondered how to make a visualization or a dashboard that’s beautiful and functional at the same time, then read on. I had..