Tag: Data Visualization

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Bhavin Lathia

Make the Invisible Tangible: Turning Time Gaps into Distance

Turn an abstract quantity into a physical distance and draw it to scale, and a number nobody can feel becomes one anybody can see. At..
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Kemi Elizabeth Ojogbede

The Plot Hole Only a Graph Could Find

I mapped The Odyssey and its two newest adaptations as a graph, and learned that some data errors are invisible until you stop reading and..
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Eva Sibinga

Critically Evaluating LLMs: What Data Visualization Can Teach Us

These thoughts are gathered from the before, during, and after of a workshop I led as part of a data visualization conference. Big thanks to..
Dark map of the Greater Tokyo rail network, colored lines radiating out, with a dense cluster of yellow dots at the center marking stations that have playable melodies.T
Akash Wadhwani

Tokyo Has 2,496 Stations and No List of Their Songs

My wife and I went to Tokyo. It was the first trip we had taken together. I’ve been into trains for a long time, so..
A chart of 32 labeled geometric sign types found in Paleolithic cave art—including circles, crosshatches, spirals, hand stencils, and zigzagsO
Alexey Pomigalov

Old Data Processing That Changed History

The article was written by Alexey Pomigalov, PhD in history and curator of the DataArt IT Museum, in April 2026. It draws on material prepared..
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Rituparna Das

Three Ways I Actually Use AI in Data Viz (No Enterprise License Required)

What I learned asking people at a data viz conference how they’re really using AI Ask someone at a data conference how they’re using AI..
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Callie Dean

Emojis as Data: Visualizing a Generation Gap

Emojis are themselves a form of data visualization: a visual shorthand for expressing our feelings, reactions, and words through text messages and social media posts...
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Or Misgav

The Beautiful Collapse of My Digital Perfection

One evening, while scrolling endlessly on my phone, an advert caught my attention: “Pride of Portsmouth” trail. Immediately, my mind shifted from passive to data..
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Debasmita Basu

We Taught Students to Read Graphs, but We Forgot to Teach Them to Question Themselves

“Who made this? Yes, I’m asking the source. I have to know, I have to know.” This was the first thing Luke said after he..
A fifteenth-century Italian fresco depicting the funeral of Saint Stephen. Mourners in long robes gather around the saint's body, laid out on a bier. The scene unfolds inside a classical architectural setting with columns and arches.A
Nastassia Shaveika

AI, Orientalism, and “Calm” Art

How GPT-4 labeled over half of the world’s art with a single feeling This painting is unmistakably a funeral. Death, in different cultures and to..
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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..
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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..
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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,..
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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..
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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),..
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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..