Tag: Data Humanism

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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..
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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..