Tag: Data Art

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Alena Lorea

SPOTLIGHT: Europe against Racism – in Memoriam to George Floyd

The brutal killing of George Floyd made me rethink many things. Racism is a global problem, but this incident reached a tipping point that drove..
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Fe Simeoni

Acnephobic: Faces for a Feminist Data Practice

Data visualizations use symbols as a tool to represent a subject. They interpret, simplify, and synthesize – often in a manner detached from the physical..
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Mary Aviles

100,000 Folds: The Stabilizing Power of Community

Even before the pandemic, social capital in America had been declining, which some have attributed to our increasingly diverse society. People need places to meet, outside of..
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Jason Forrest

NEW YORK ALIVE! Blending Performance and Data Art

I love non-traditional data visualization and I regularly think about how we can continue to push the boundaries. There are many ways to entertain, motivate, and..
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Javier Sanchez Gutierrez

Data Visualization in Parasite

A few months after becoming the first Korean film awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, the president of the jury, Alejandro G. Iñarritu,..
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Alec Barrett

Where Data Meets Literacy: A Review of Richard Brath’s “Visualizing with Text”

What do a dictionary entry, the Electoral House of Bavaria’s family tree, and Compact Rectangular Euler Diagrams have in common? These are among the dozens..
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Zach Bowders

Viz What You Love

After a long day of meetings, projections, and rigorous data analysis there’s nothing I look forward to more in the evening than sitting down and..
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Victor Saenger

Drawing Neurons From Sound And Music In Real-Time

Inspired by Neuroscience, we can start to answer the question: What does music look like? I know that I am not the only one that,..
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Andy Kirk

What Makes A Data Visualisation Elegant?

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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Jason Forrest

The Process of Familiarity: An Interview with Nicholas Rougeux

I remember the first time I stumbled across the work of Nicholas Rougeux — it was his painstaking recreation of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours — and I..
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Noëlle Rakotondravony & Jason Forrest

Intricate & Visually Exciting: An Interview with Nadieh Bremer

Nadieh Bremer is an award-winning data visualization designer and artist, from a small town near Amsterdam. Nadieh’s projects demonstrate the beauty, fun, and excitement of working in dataviz...
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Erica Gunn

Dataviz as Guide Dog

As a data vis designer living in both the art and data worlds, I sometimes hear that I should “just go wild” or “let my..