Making Dashboards Optimal for Human Brain Processing
How the science behind brain processing and active memory can help guide our dashboard and other data visual designs.
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Erica Gunn
Step 6 in the Data Exploration Journey: Cut to Realistic Scope
A project to find insights from DVS's State of the Industry Survey data moves from the analysis stages to preparation for build out.
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Joshua Pine
An Interview with Jordan Morrow, Author of “Be Data Analytical”
In his latest book, Morrow explores how data can influence decision making. Here's a peek at what's inside—plus, a Q&A with the author.
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Agnes Vilia, Aquila Adimurti, Regina Nurashari & Arran Ridley
Teaching Data Visualisation to Middle Schoolers in Jakarta
The class allowed students to see data as not just a result of gathering facts from the world, but as a tool to make meaning of reality.
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Satya Amaran
Defying Chart Design Rules for Clearer Data Insights
Sir David MacKay, a UK scientist, challenged conventional chart design and created a truly insightful data visualization about sustainable energy.
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Antonia Hadjimichael
Weaving Data Viz Into Science and Engineering Education
A Penn State course introduced STEM students to data visualization, teaching them design fundamentals and how to be supportive practitioners.
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Elena Etter
Data Visualization: A Subjective Lens on Reality
An analysis of three elements that influence data visualization and that render the underlying data to be more subjective than objective.
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Ana Paula Lamberti Bertol
Lalena Fisher: Telling A Children’s Story With Infographics
An interview with children's author Lalena Fisher, whose latest book introduces kids to charts and diagrams that tell a story of friendship.
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June Injete
Data Storytelling Is Empowering Female Journalists in Kenya
A fellowship program is teaching Kenyan journalists to use data sources and data analysis to do investigative work. Here are three examples.
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Jane Lee
‘Love Data Week’ is in Full Swing. Here’s How to Participate
When data geeks and Valentine's Day collide, it's Love Data Week! Running eight years (and going steady), this event is growing in scope and popularity.
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Gulrez Khan
From Chocolates to Bar Graphs
“Abbu, I’ll make a graph of all the chocolates you eat while I’m asleep and will send it to your team,” my daughter Pariza complained,..
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Eli Holder
Unfair Comparisons: How Visualizing Social Inequality Can Make It Worse
Our new research shows how popular chart choices can trigger unconscious social biases and reinforce systemic racism. At first glance, the charts below seem harmless...
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Nick Desbarats
Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)
tl;dr: After teaching many data professionals about bullet graphs and using them in many dashboards, I started to notice that they had a fair number..
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William Careri
REVIEW: Be Data Driven by Jordan Morrow
Following up on his first book, which considered data from the individual level, Jordan Morrow’s Be Data Driven looks at harnessing the power of data..
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Brianna Wilson
Embracing Mobile to Make Your Data Visualizations More Equitable
Most of us have issues we care deeply about, whether they are large or small, individual or societal. When you think about the issues that..
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Mary Aviles & Jason Forrest
Information Empowerment: A Reciprocal Data Literacy Case Study, Part 3
This is part three of a six-part series dedicated to sharing cross-functional ideas for design thinkers, data practitioners, business intelligence analysts, researchers, policymakers, and subject..
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