Tag: Community

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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Mary Aviles

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale, Nightingale’s biweekly newsletter. Currently a senior UX researcher at Detroit Labs and the managing editor of Nightingale,..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Nancy Organ

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale, Nightingale’s biweekly newsletter. Nancy is currently a freelance data visualization designer and developer, with past lives..
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Alexandra Khoo

Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research

What started out as an experiment by Professor Niklas Elmqvist to make student work more meaningful gave rise to VisUMD. It’s a Medium blog that..
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: Mindworks – The Science of Thinking

Researchers and analysts are always seeking new ways to engage people, to help their insights feel meaningful to their audiences. Action is rarely generated from..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Chesca Kirkland

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale, Nightingale’s biweekly newsletter. Chesca is a London + Brighton based data visualisation designer and photographer (and..
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Amanda Makulec

The Information is Beautiful Awards are Back!

During our State of the Industry panel at Outlier, we welcomed a video address from a special guest: David McCandless. Founder of the Information is..
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Nicholas Rougeux

Encyclopedic Data Art

The digital edition of Iconographic Encyclopædia was a year-long project to breathe new life into an antique. In recent years, I’ve undertaken several of these..
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Jonathan Schwabish & Claire McKay Bowen

Data4Kids: A Collaborative Project to Teach Kids about Data

When the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down in-person learning, we knew education wouldn’t be the same. How could kids—especially younger kids in elementary and middle..
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Anthony Starks

The #DuBois Challenge

In February 2021, people on Twitter were challenged to re-create the historical data visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois. The goal of the challenge was to..
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Evelina Judeikytė

Submit Your Work for the Outlier Viz Exhibit!

Are you looking for a space to share your work and get inspired by the work of other data visualization designers? You can submit your..
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Evelina Judeikytė

Host an Unconference Session!

We acknowledge that some folks who applied to speak and were not selected may feel disappointed, and we totally understand that. If time and budget..
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Mollie Pettit

Creating an Inclusive Global Dataviz Conference

It’s amazing to me to think that Amy, Elijah, and I launched The Data Visualization Society just three years ago. I am now about to..
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Neil Richards

REVIEW: How Can We Use Comics to Tell Data Stories?

This post is a review of From Data to Stories, a book from Richie Lionell and Ramya Mylavarapu of Gramener, described on its front page..
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: Detroit in 50 Maps by Alex B. Hill

In professional and community circles, Detroit can sometimes feel like a small town. I started hearing about Alex B. Hill and his site, Detroitography, early..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Chuck Burke

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale, Nightingale’s biweekly newsletter. Chuck Burke is a multidisciplinary information designer with a background in explanatory journalism and academic publishing;..
Hand-drawn icons of care actions like cooking, cleaning, and listening, scattered around the question "How do we measure unpaid labor?"S
Eva Sibinga

SPOTLIGHT: How Do We Measure Unpaid Labor?

I thought a lot about labor and care in the winter and spring of 2021. Like many other people, I spent most of that time..