Tag: Data Humanism

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Anda Lupascu

Big Data, Cute Story

Happy New Year to all! As January ticks on, I think we are all familiar with the contestable tradition of the New Year Resolution. But..
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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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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..
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Martina Zunica

SPOTLIGHT: 100 Days of Happiness

2022 has just started and I’m taking stock of the last year, of achievements, loved ones, and things to work on. Have I lived at..
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Erin Waldron

A Poet’s Perspective: Seven Reasons Why Your Dataviz Team Should Include an Analyst from the Humanities

I was once auto-rejected from a job I had written for myself. After several interviews, my soon-to-be manager asked me to delineate the responsibilities I..
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Mary Aviles

Curiouser and Curiouser: Crafting Questions and Attending to the Answers

Adjacent skills—some of which are referred to as “soft” skills (such an inappropriately diminutive moniker)—can serve you both personally and professionally. My goal in this..
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Mary Aviles & Jason Forrest

Information Empowerment Bridges Expertise to Amplify Impact, Part 2

Part two of a six-part series on the application of design thinking for data practitioners, business intelligence analysts, researchers, and anyone working with data. Catch..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Plan Planet: Part 6 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the sixth installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the fifth part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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Or Misgav

How I Survived Being a New Mum Using My Dataviz Goggles

I found out that I was pregnant with my first child in the middle of the first lockdown. I was sitting at my favourite spot..
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Mary Aviles & Jason Forrest

Information Empowerment is a Universal Theory for Data Design, Part 1

Part one of a six-part series on the application of design thinking for data practitioners, business intelligence analysts, researchers, and anyone working with data.Jason comes..
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Chesca Kirkland

CoViz-19 Part 2: A Personal Visualisation of the UK’s ‘Roadmap to Freedom’

During the first UK national lockdown in 2020, I documented and visualised my experience of living alone for 75 days from April to June 2020...
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Emilia Ruzicka

You’ve Got Mail: Part 5 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fifth installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the fourth part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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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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Emilia Ruzicka

Are You Not Entertained?: Part 4 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fourth installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the third part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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Jonathan Schwabish & Alice Feng

Six Ways to Bring Empathy into your Data

One of the big challenges in visualizing data, and quantitative research in general, is helping readers connect with the content. Connecting directly with people and..
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Emilia Ruzicka

All in a Day’s Work: Part 3 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

This is the third installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the second part before jumping in, here’s the article about my..