Tag: Data Visualization

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Shirley Wu

Senses & Sentiment: When data is too emotional for the screen

After doing data visualization work for eleven years, in 2021 I decided to go back to school to gain the skills and tools for creating..
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Teodora Popescu

The Art of the Trump Tracker: How Data Viz Can Combat News Fatigue

Since coming into office for his second term, President Donald Trump has issued more than 124 executive orders—with nearly as many lawsuits filed in response...
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Yuqi Liao

Do students around the world think they know more than they do?

Analyzing PISA data to uncover patterns of overclaiming in mathematics. CategoriesTopics in Dataviz TagsData HumanismData VisualizationInteractives
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Emma Rubin

The Endless Stories in Baby Name Data

Throughout my time as a student I was used to being known with a last initial. My first name Emma has consistently ranked in the..
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Christian Osborne

The Hidden Toll: Microaggressions and the Impact on People of Color in the Workplace

Minority groups face microaggressions regularly in their day-to-day lives, but these incidents are most encountered in the workplace, often more than are documented. Many in..
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Jason Forrest

My 6 Years at Nightingale: 1,443 Digital Articles, 5 Print Magazines, and a Whole Lot of Love

This article will mark my last one as the Editor-in-chief of Nightingale. Yes, it's time for me to pass the torch to the current team, and announce our new editor-in-chief: RJ Andrews! In this article I tell the story of Nightingale and reveal of my master plan of the last 6 years.
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Natalia Kiseleva

Paperbase: A Window into Photographic Paper History

The Lens Media Lab at Yale University’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage has created Paperbase, an interactive platform for exploring the world’s largest..
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Dawn Arvelo

Mentorship Trumps DEI

Whether you are for or against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), you have undoubtedly seen or heard about it. The Trump Administration signed an Executive..
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Alex Solokov

Beyond the Binary: Improving Data Visualization for Intersectional Identities

Personal and group identity are foundational to the human experience, shaping our values, relationships, and self-perceptions. These identities intersect across categories like gender, race, ethnicity,..
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Gulrez Khan

From Moonsighting to Ramadan Data Journaling

As I was heading out to the mosque for the evening prayer, I heard a soft voice from the kitchen—”Abbu, wait! I’ll join you.”It was..
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Emma Eisenberg

Why Your Teen Doesn’t Care About Driving

My own parents were baffled when I showed no interest in getting a permit or driver’s license in high school, and looking around my school,..
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Nightingale Editors

3 Data Points from New DVS Board Members

The start to 2025 saw the induction of four new Data Visualization Society board members. As they begin their respective duties to elevate DVS, we..
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Paul Kahn

Napoleon, Trump, and the Best Statistical Graphic Ever Drawn

Now that I have your attention, let me ask you three simple yes-or-no questions.  Why you have seen Minard’s diagram of Napoleon’s invasion of RussiaWhen..
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Michael Friendly & Claude Haiku

What Does AI Understand About a Graph?

A Conversation With a Chatbot About a Graph How much does AI know about understanding and producing graphs? I don’t mean mathematical graphs of nodes and edges. Rather, I mean common graphs..
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datacitron

Good Morning Data #9 | The Error Message Longing 

The Error Message Longing or “How we should always treasure our mistakes“The conversation was loud and happy, scattered with high-pitched laughs that were probably annoying..
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Amanda Makulec & Elijah Meeks

The 4th Wave: Democratization

This article is a continuation of A Changing World Speaking a shared languageData visualizations are themselves accessibility tools to see patterns and make comparisons, sometimes..