Data Visualization, Nightingale

Alyxander Burns

Learning to Read Academic Papers by Making Data Comics

Learning to read academic papers is a considerable challenge for many college students. Take, for instance, the task of reading a research paper for an..

Nina Errey

Why audience age matters: The Influence of Audience Age on Engagement with Interactive Narrative Visualization

Interactive data-driven stories are an increasingly common way to communicate complex information—climate change, election outcomes, etc. Often, however, they are built for a broad audience...

Shreya Jaiswal

What your New York Neighborhood Says About You (Backed by Data)

Cross between New York City neighborhoods and you’ll be transported. Parents crowd Park Slope’s stroller-lined streets, where the child-to-adult ratio is rising–defying citywide trends in..

Paul Tsagaroulis

How Data Visualization Became My Career Catalyst

How mastering data storytelling can transform your careerAs an industrial-organizational psychologist, I started my career with a clear plan. Study workplace behavior. Research. Consult. Maybe..

Elena Tratsevskaya

Plastic Portrait: Visualizing Technical Skills Through Cable Ties

I’ve always been interested in the aesthetic side of dashboards beyond what the tools offer—importing custom backgrounds and graphic elements created outside of BI software.The..

Bahareh Zahirodini & Moinak Bhaduri

Winds of Change and How They Sway Fatalist Fractalists

We don’t know whether you have noticed, but there are many phrases we casually let loose that cry out for visualisation. Or, at least, an..

Gulrez Khan

Data Doesn’t Have to Start with Spreadsheets. It Can Start with a Sneeze.

I was invited to an elementary school in the Bay Area to introduce kids to the wonderful world of data. A decade ago, I wouldn’t..

Giuseppe Sollazzo

The Bus Station That Didn’t Exist, and Other Data Epiphanies

“Data is multidisciplinary” is my mantra—it’s 2025, and I’ve now worked 20 years in every possible flavour of data—data visualization, open data advocacy, data pipelines..

Leonard Pierce

Flower Visualizations and the Uncertainty of New Parenthood

Developing understanding through visualizing newborn data Expecting parents are inundated with information about newborn health and all of the potential maladies that can befall them...

Henry Ehlers, Daniel Pahr, Sara di Bartolomeo, Christina Stoiber & Velitchko Filipov

BattleGraphs: Forge, Fortify, and Fight in the Network Arena

Constructive visualization enables users to create personalized data representations and facilitates early insight generation and sensemaking. Based on NODKANT, a toolkit for creating physical network..

Katie Anderson-Kelly

MyMatrescenceProject: Using “Data-Less” Data Visualisation to Explore My Experience of Motherhood

I don’t observe, collect, or draw, but the language of data visualisation is still helping me make sense of becoming a mother. Before becoming a..

Lorenzo Amabili, Eduard Gröller & Renata G. Raidou

Leveraging Popular Board Games to Teach Data Visualization Through Play

What if your favorite board games didn’t just entertain you but also taught you how to interpret scatter plots, recognize chart types, and sharpen your..

Andrew Gelman & Susan Kruglinski

Statistical Graphics and Comics: Parallel Histories of Visual Storytelling

What do data visualization and comics have in common? One of these is used to communicate in science and journalism, and the other appears in..

Or Misgav

A Garden of Sleep: Tracking the Emotional Distance Between Two Bedtimes

For the past six months, my husband and I haven’t gone to sleep at the same time.We both work full-time and raise two young children,..