Data Dreams Come True: My DVS Mentorship Experience
The DVS mentorship program was as much an emotional experience as it was an educational one. Here are key lessons I learned along the way.
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Alex Kolokolov
From Big Screens to Paper Printouts: Adapting Your Dashboard for Different Formats
Will your dashboard be seen on a phone? In an auditorium? On a printout? Here are the best practices for eight possible dashboard formats.
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Alex Kolokolov
How I Took Off My Dashboard Crown and Admitted My Mistakes
An intern ripped apart a dashboard that I had considered a model of good design. I chose to swallow my pride and learn from the experience.
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Erdni Okonov
Making Dashboards Optimal for Human Brain Processing
How the science behind brain processing and active memory can help guide our dashboard and other data visual designs.
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Amanda Makulec
Has Data Storytelling Reached Its Peak?
"Data storytelling" has become an overhyped, catch-all term. Here’s how to align data storytelling expectations with colleagues and clients.
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Alex Kolokolov
When Charts Looks Like Spaghetti, Try These Saucy Solutions
Tangled heaps of lines and numbers are a recipe for disaster. Here's how to make a dashboard with more visually appetizing charts.
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Lindsey Poulter
Finding The Right Elements For an Award-Winning Dashboard
Lindsey Poulter won the World Data Viz Prize using a mix of dashboard features—including a shuffle button to randomize the view.
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Marian Eerens
How Dieter Rams’s Design Principles Apply to Dashboard Design
Legendary designer Dieter Rams established 10 principles of good product design. Here's how to interpret those principles when designing business dashboards.
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Nick Desbarats
Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)
tl;dr: After teaching many data professionals about bullet graphs and using them in many dashboards, I started to notice that they had a fair number..
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Andy Krackov
Dashboards Are Not Data Stories
A few months ago, a longtime client asked if my data communication consultancy could build out a dashboard display for health collaboratives in California doing..
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Eli Holder
Dashboard Psychology: Effective Feedback in Data Design
“What you measure, you improve.” You’ve heard this a million times. It sounds nice. It seems plausible. There’s a bunch of evidence supporting it. But..
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Silvia Romanelli
Engaging Your Dashboard Users through User Testing
User testing is not common practice in internal KPI dashboard projects. Yet, it can bring much valuable insight, helping create a better user experience. On..
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Phil Hawkins
Draw The Rest Of The Chart: Imposter Syndrome and Leveling Up in Data Visualization
Is It Ever Gonna Be Enough? A bright, energetic consultant stares intently at Microsoft PowerPoint. This hero, inexperienced but devoted, hears a door open nearby...
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Tricia Aung
Visualizing Data for Audiences in Low & Middle-Income Countries
On a dedicated channel, #dvs-topics-in-data-viz, in the Data Visualization Society Slack, our members discuss questions and issues pertinent to the field of data visualization. Discussion..
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