“Cut Short”: Visualizing Lives Lost with Empathy and Impact
In May 2022, the U.S. hit the grim milestone of 1 million COVID deaths. Newsrooms across the country reported this statistic, often accompanied by sobering..
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Mia Szarvas
Visualizing Your Personal Gender Pay Gap: How Does Your Salary Compare?
Every year the Data Visualization Society (DVS) conducts a huge survey called the State of the Industry—collecting a rich array of data that paints a..
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Joshua Pine
Telling the Story of Urban Innovation and Pandemic Response with Data
In late March 2020, shortly after COVID-19 was recognized as a global pandemic, the National League of Cities (NLC) partnered with Bloomberg Philanthropies to create..
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Alexandra Khoo
Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research
What started out as an experiment by Professor Niklas Elmqvist to make student work more meaningful gave rise to VisUMD. It’s a Medium blog that..
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Rajesh Sigdel
Visualizing Hispaniola
With the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the kidnapping of 17-foreign born missionaries, and a destructive earthquake which left thousands dead, Haiti is once again..
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Oscar So
“What are you going to write for your second?” – An interview with Kenneth Field
Recently, I had the chance to interview Kenneth Field about his newly published book, Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data. Kenneth is..
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Ilena Peng
What Data Visualization and Analysis Taught One Activist about Airbnb’s Impact on Communities
Activist and technologist Murray Cox has been described as a “Lone Data Whiz” who is Airbnb’s “Public Enemy No. 1 in New York.” These monikers..
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Simran Parwani
Early Career Corner: Meet Dzifa Amexo
I feel so lucky to be the Early Career Director at DVS: I get to talk to all sorts of people about data visualization and..
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Loh Pei Ying
Asia’s data scene deserves greater attention. That’s why we are starting a movement.
A data-driven studio telling stories about Asia, Kontinentalist uses data storytelling to bridge the gap between research and the public, bringing Asia to the forefront..
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Heather Jones
SPOTLIGHT: Designer Dogs
For TIME’s annual Answers Issue in 2014, the graphics department was tasked with presenting data-driven visual solutions to both simple and complex questions, and compiling..
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Alena Lorea
SPOTLIGHT: Europe against Racism – in Memoriam to George Floyd
The brutal killing of George Floyd made me rethink many things. Racism is a global problem, but this incident reached a tipping point that drove..
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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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Ali Tehrani
SPOTLIGHT: How Racially Diverse Are The Oscars, Really?
This article spotlights Ali Tehrani’s design process. This visualization was featured as Tableau’s Viz of the Day on April 26, 2021.Earlier this year, I came..
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Duncan Geere & Miriam Quick
Loud Numbers and The Natural Lottery
The residents of the town of Nenana in Alaska have an unusual annual tradition. Every March, as the days begin to grow longer and the..
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Josh Strupp
Visualizing the Gap
Meet Anthony and Natasha. If you follow basketball (and maybe even if you don’t), you’ve probably heard of him: Anthony Davis is a superstar. He..
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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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