Tag: Data Humanism

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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..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Moving Right Along: Part 2 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

This is the second installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the first part before diving in, here’s the article about my..
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Chesca Kirkland

CoViz-19: 10 Things I Learnt from 75 Days Alone in Lockdown

National lockdown was particularly scary for me as I was living in a tiny flat in Brighton, with no private outdoor space, on furlough and..
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Rohan Jhunja

Putting Three Meals on the Table

At Gramener, we each took up a personal data challenge over the month of December 2020. Since my family at home had been fighting over how..
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Andy Krackov & Sarah Marikos

Asterisk Nation: One Tribe’s Challenge to Find Data About its Population

The Yurok Tribe in far northern California needs to address a condition plaguing numerous rural communities in the United States: addiction and substance misuse. Across..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Food for Thought: Part 1 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

Hello! I’m a student, data journalist, and designer with a love for all things dataviz. In accordance with annual traditions, I spent a lot of..
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Inbal Rief & Ravid Rief

“Not on our watch.” The Spirit of Women Activists and the Political Violence against Them during the COVID-19 Pandemic Burst

On August 8th, ‘Women Weaving Reality’ marched silently in Jerusalem towards the Israeli parliament. Dressed in shades of red, Jewish and Arab women joined together to represent..
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Alli Torban

How to Create Wonder with Data and a Physical Object

“And the T-Rex was SO big!” squealed my best friend Emily, who was sitting next to me on the bus ride to Kindergarten. It was..
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Kat Greenbrook

My Plastic Footprint: a Physical Data Visualisation Project

We measure and collect data on things we want to understand. In understanding the numbers, we hope to learn more about the world we live..
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Mary Aviles

Generating Data Action: How an MIT Professor Hopes Data Can Empower Civic Change

Technology, applied responsibly, has the potential to drive social change. Public tech, sometimes called gov-tech, can connect and mobilize people, improve city experiences, and reduce government..