Tag: Data Visualization

Book cover of Drawing Data With Kids, showing a father doing art with a young girl in a green headscarfR
Joseph Mackereth

Review: Drawing Data with Kids

The book "Drawing Data with Kids" makes data visualization accessible, low-tech, and something the whole family can do—no screens required.
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Will Stahl-Timmins & Nadieh Bremer

Showing Human Stories Behind Data Points

Will Stahl-Timmins was struggling to visualize groups of people in a humanizing way. Then he heard Nadieh Bremer's tips on data aggregation.
Line chart elements on the dashboard resemble pasta sticks on a plate. Delicious!W
Alex Kolokolov

When Charts Looks Like Spaghetti, Try These Saucy Solutions

Tangled heaps of lines and numbers are a recipe for disaster. Here's how to make a dashboard with more visually appetizing charts.
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Elsa Richard

A Crowdsourced Geodata Project Is Aiding Education Efforts in Tanzania 

A geodata project helped diagnose problems with education access in Tanzania, allowing education stakeholders to devise solutions to boost school attendance.
A bubble chart of migrants, where the each bubble is colored by place of origin and the size of the bubble is the number of migrants.B
Soha Elghany

Beyond Numbers: How Ethical Data Visualization Tells the Human Story

If you fail to show the human behind the data, you risk telling an incomplete and misleading tale, devoid of crucial information.
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Or Misgav

Finding Solace in Tracking My First Trimester Nights

Through sleepless nights and overwhelming fatigue, I used data and art to discover my strength—and the beauty of resilience.
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Agnes Vilia, Aquila Adimurti, Regina Nurashari & Arran Ridley

Teaching Data Visualisation to Middle Schoolers in Jakarta

The class allowed students to see data as not just a result of gathering facts from the world, but as a tool to make meaning of reality.
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Prasanta Kumar Dutta

Visualising the Spread of a Hypothetical Pandemic

Creating animated globe visuals required months of exploring data, playing with D3, leveraging several graphics tools—and a few clever hacks.
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Amy Cesal & Amanda Makulec

Teaching the Foundations of Data Visualization 

Thinking about teaching data viz? DVS co-founders Amy Cesal and Amanda Makulec share their thoughts on developing an overview class.
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Fe Simeoni

Querying the Quantification of the Queer: A New Data Structure for Gender Spectra

As long as binary designations continue to be used, queer individuals will be misrepresented. Here's a redesigned gender data structure.
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Emily Barone & Frank Elavsky

A New Vision for Data Viz Accessibility

As the data viz industry becomes more aware of the barriers it creates for blind and visually impaired people, things are starting to change.
Grid showing dozens of screens from the Economist Impact data design system slide deck. Charts are not legible but are shown as small thumbnails, largely using shades of reds and blues to match the bright red of the Economist Impact logo.C
Ben Willers

Creating a Design System to Prevent Problematic Colour Pairings

The data design system at Economist Impact needed to ensure charts were clear, insightful, and accessible—which led to a new colour tool. 
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Nightingale Editors

Making Visual Accessibility Part of Your Data Viz Practice

Data journalists Jaime Tanner and Johny Cassidy chat about the milestones and challenges they see in making data viz visually accessible.
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India Johnson & Nightingale Editors

Dear Nightingale: Raveling Data

Can you transform a piece of fabric into a data viz by unraveling it? In this challenge, feel free to cut, pick, and pull meaning out of a textile.
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Nightingale Editors

Data Is Plural Visualization Challenge: Project Dialogism Novel Corpus

Ready to dig into a good book? This iteration of the Data Is Plural Visualization Challenge features the Project Dialogism Novel Corpus.
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Satya Amaran

Defying Chart Design Rules for Clearer Data Insights

Sir David MacKay, a UK scientist, challenged conventional chart design and created a truly insightful data visualization about sustainable energy.