Tag: Data Literacy

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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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Jason Forrest, Jill A. Brown, Nate Coursey, Tristan Guillevin, Jeff Harrison & Eli Holder

“In the end, all data visualization ends up with a conversation” — A Joint Review of Eyeo 2022

The Eyeo festival has always held an interesting place in the community as, I’m told, it never really focused on any specific subject matter. At..
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Neil Richards

REVIEW: Dr. Selena Fisk’s I’m Not a Numbers Person

When I came across I’m not a numbers person and learned about Dr. Selena Fisk, I knew that I would be interested in reading the..
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Nick Desbarats

Are Vertical Line Charts Ever a Good Idea?

I recently asked dataviz Twitter if anyone could point to situations in which a vertical line chart was the best chart type for that situation...
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Alberto Molina

SPOTLIGHT: How to Say ‘I Love You’ with a Graphic

For the past two years, the data visualization narratives we’ve become familiar with infection curves, maps of health zones, and models of how the virus..
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Christen Spehr

Five Ways to Teach Math as an Art Form

Some days it feels like my first words were, “I hate math.” There’s a stereotype that creative ‘right-brainers’ can’t do math, and as a writer..
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Catherine Ramsdell

Data Literacy and General Education: A Potentially Perfect Partnership

In 2012, Harvard Business Review declared data scientist the sexiest job in the world. No one ever has declared general education the sexiest anything in..
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Jonathan Schwabish & Claire McKay Bowen

Data4Kids: A Collaborative Project to Teach Kids about Data

When the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down in-person learning, we knew education wouldn’t be the same. How could kids—especially younger kids in elementary and middle..
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Nick Desbarats

A Map of Data Visualization (For Discussion!!)

The data visualization field is fascinating and I feel incredibly fortunate to be working in it, but, frankly, it’s also kind of a mess: It’s..
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: Detroit in 50 Maps by Alex B. Hill

In professional and community circles, Detroit can sometimes feel like a small town. I started hearing about Alex B. Hill and his site, Detroitography, early..