Tag: Data Humanism

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Valerie Casalino

Analytics Products Will Never Be Truly Human-Centered Until the Workplaces Behind Them Are

I’ve been really excited to see a shift in analytics and business intelligence around more integration of human-centred design, ethics, and accessibility. I learn something..
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Jason Forrest

LA on the Move: Data Vandals Bring Wildlife and Humans Together at Union Station

The relationship between nature and the city is often framed as a tension - wilderness versus concrete, animals versus humans. But what if we looked at Los Angeles differently? What if we saw the city as a shared habitat where humans and wildlife navigate the same streets, highways, and neighborhoods together?
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Or Misgav

A Garden of Sleep: Tracking the Emotional Distance Between Two Bedtimes

For the past six months, my husband and I haven’t gone to sleep at the same time.We both work full-time and raise two young children,..
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Fe Simeoni

Datafying Mixed Social Identities: Nonbinarity as the Complementary of Intersectionality

Capturing mixed social identities through categorical data presents significant challenges. Nonbinarity provides a conceptual, computational, and visual framework for reimagining social identities beyond binary oppositions...
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Damla Çay, Dario Rodighiero & Weidi Zhang

Visualizing as a Form of Collective Care

Care is easy to recognize on a personal level, especially when it takes the form of small, attentive gestures woven into daily life. We see..
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Yuqi Liao

Do students around the world think they know more than they do?

Analyzing PISA data to uncover patterns of overclaiming in mathematics. CategoriesTopics in Dataviz TagsData HumanismData VisualizationInteractives
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Jason Forrest

The “Dashboard” is Broken

The value of dashboards has eroded. When executives hear the word “dashboard” today, they envision standard charts in BI platforms—obligatory elements for meetings rather than..
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Alex Solokov

Beyond the Binary: Improving Data Visualization for Intersectional Identities

Personal and group identity are foundational to the human experience, shaping our values, relationships, and self-perceptions. These identities intersect across categories like gender, race, ethnicity,..
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Frederic Fery

Harnessing Data for a Better World

The world is filled with challenges, but also opportunities. As a data professional, I’ve always believed in the transformative power of data to solve problems..
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Elijah Meeks

This Map Helps Fascists

The Size of Countries is Not Meaningful in Any SenseYou’ve surely seen this map or a variation of it somewhere on the internet. If, like..
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Andy Krackov

Can Community Data Help Heal Public Discourse?

I have this vision in my head: I see an individual earnestly weighing how to vote in an election. But rather than resorting to social..
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William Careri

When the Data is Gone

When Cartoon Network abruptly erased its entire online archive, decades of web content vanished in an instant. At the same time, Boomerang, a platform that..
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Poe Bertholon

Visualizing Meth Addiction: Data Reveals The Truth About Methamphetamine Addiction in The US

Despite the lack of conversation, the abuse of methamphetamine remains an extremely serious problem in the United States. According to the CDC Wonder Database, in..
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Kelsey Nanan

The Tortured Data Viz Department: An Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Lyrics

In April of 2024, Taylor Swift released her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD), which she wrote over the past two years, during her..
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Shri Khalpada

‘The Data Diaries’: Building Community Through Data in ‘The Communal Plot’

For the last few years, I’ve been interested in how interactive digital tools can foster a sense of community while being enjoyable. My latest project,..
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Aura Walmer

‘The Data Diaries’: Data Sonification of the Total Solar Eclipse

The process behind doing data sonification of the total solar eclipse.