Tag: Data Humanism

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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..
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Mary Aviles

Indelible Impressions: Why You Won’t Forget the Map Room Project

In my quest to improve data fluency among those who think of themselves as non-data people, I am always on the lookout for physical manifestations..
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Silvia Romanelli

Why Should Non-Profits Add Data Visualisation to their Communication Toolkit?

After the corporate sector and journalism, non-profit organisations are slowly starting to put their data to use and visualise it—for example, using numbers, maps, and..
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Mary Aviles

Data Visualization As an Act of Witnessing

In late 2016, I read an article by Michael Brennan, principal of Detroit-based, nonprofit design firm Civilla, in the Harvard Business Review. I was haunted by this line: “I..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Racial Bias in Code and Data: An Interview with Alex Garcia

As a young data journalist, I was advised to attend NICAR — an annual data journalism conference organized by Investigative Editors and Reporters and their suborganization, the National..
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Jason Forrest

How I Became Myself Again: What Writing Did for My Self-Worth in 2019

I love year-end lists not only to learn about the best movies, books, articles, and events of the previous year but also because I really..
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Johannes Wirges

What Board Games Teach Us About Data Visualization

Recently I visited the biggest trade fair for board games in the world. The Internationale Spieltage (Spiel) takes place annually in my current hometown of Essen in..
“Data-Driven Storytelling” by N. H. Riche, C. Hurter, N. Diakopoulos and S. CarpendaleD
Lorenzo Amabili

Data-Driven Storytelling: A Short Review

Researching how to leverage visual storytelling for medical imaging data analysis, I was looking for a road map to obtain a more structured and solid..
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Andy Krackov

How Can Data Visualization Improve Local Conditions?

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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Allen Hillary

Michelle Rial’s New Book Dreams of Being on Your Coffee Table

Michelle Rial is a San Francisco–based information designer who readily admits she has a slight obsession with charts. Her works of art have been featured..
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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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Paul Matos

Mapping Mexico City’s Indigenous People

“They aren’t statistics. They are human lives,” says Juan Luis Toledo Sanchez, member of the autonomous cooperative Cimarronez (or C.A.C.A.O., by its Spanish acronym), in..
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Alexandra Khoo

Why We Find Joy and Value in Creating Data Visualizations

I don’t know about you, but when something piques my interest — TV tropes, color theory, the life-changing magic of tidying up, anything — I..
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Jason Forrest & Alyssa Bell

The Data We Do Not See: An Interview with Giorgia Lupi

Thoughts on embracing complexity and the future of data Giorgia Lupi is an award-winning information designer. She recently became a partner at Pentagram, their only one specializing..
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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..