Data Visualization, Nightingale

Rituparna Das

Building Tableau Dashboards for the PowerPoint Download

Working in reporting and analytics for the last six years has made me realize an uncomfortable truth about Tableau: Your beautiful interactive dashboard will often..

Or Misgav

The Tiles That Made Me: Mapping Friendship through the Lens of AI

According to the Oxford Dictionary, friendship is a “voluntary, personal relationship characterized by mutual affection, trust, and support.” Whereas to me, friendship involves authenticity and..

Ansley Standridge

Trends, Aesthetics, and Individuality: How the Internet Irrevocably Changed Fashion

Close your eyes, and picture an outfit from the 1980s. Now, the 1990s. The 2000s. Chances are you thought of perms and shoulder pads first,..

Isobel Parkes

The Back of the Painting: On Structure, Integrity, and Data Visualisation

In the early 1420s, Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and painter, completed his first large-scale work for the newly built monastery at San Domenico. The..

Erica Gunn

Info+

Info+ is a long-standing data vis conference, held biannually in rotating locations. This year, it was hosted at Northeastern University in Boston (my alma mater),..

Valerie Casalino

Analytics Products Will Never Be Truly Human-Centered Until the Workplaces Behind Them Are

I’ve been really excited to see a shift in analytics and business intelligence around more integration of human-centred design, ethics, and accessibility. I learn something..

Andrew Peters

From Metrics to Mood: The Emotional Story in A HYROX Race

In the world of sports performance, data is everywhere. Watches track heart rates, apps monitor recovery, and race platforms log every split and second. But..

Callie Dean

In the Shadow of Edmund Halley: Solar Eclipses, Citizen Science, and Qualitative Dataviz

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse crossed North America from the Pacific Coast of Mexico to the island of Newfoundland, off the eastern..

Erica Gunn

Mapping Change: How One Design Studio Navigated 20 Years at the Forefront of a Changing Industry

Applied Works is a London-based design studio celebrating their 20th anniversary. I sat down recently with founders Joe Sharpe and Paul Kettle to discuss their..

Daria Koshkina

Data Visualization & Affective Computing. Design That Manipulates Emotions or Design That Helps Reflect on Emotions?

What are emotions and how design is connected Emotions are complex. They are not feelings nor are they desires. I’ll define emotions as a biopsychological..

Isobel Parkes

From Pixels to Parks: The Intersection of Data Visualisation and Urban Greening

Italian designer, Bruno Munari, famously argued that “Art shall not be separated from life: things that are good to look at, and bad to be..

Ruishan Wu, Zezhong Wang, Haidan Liu, Krithika Balasubramanyam, Kanak Gautam, Aham Gupta, Shannon McAllister & Sheelagh Carpendale

Exploring Data Detective Practices as a Class Activity

We reflect on our experiences arising from a recent computer science graduate class about data feminism, during which we explored the idea of being data..

Sachi Mahajan

Breaking Stereotypes in Women’s Football

It was 2015, a year that has been etched into my memory. Barcelona had just conquered football, sweeping La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and..

Nina Koch

Datavis as a Community Experience: How to (Not) Create a Datavis in a Group

Do you know individuals who seem to focus on one thing for their whole life? I’m on the opposite side of the scale. Inspired by..

Emilia Ruzicka

Behind the Scenes: Dashboards That Deliver

Andy Cotgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler have a new book coming out on September 23, 2025—Dashboards That Deliver: How to Design, Develop,..