Tag: Data Visualization

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Erica Gunn

Step 4 in the Data Exploration Journey: Knowing When to Stop

This article is part V in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new...
The cover of Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations, by Jen ChristiansenB
Núria Altimir

Building Science Graphics: Behind the Scenes with author Jen Christiansen

Jen Christiansen is senior graphics editor at Scientific American and has written the book Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science with Diagrams..
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Letícia Pozza

A Camera That Prints the Futures We Envision – with a Bit of Help from an AI

One of the first things that made me fall in love with my husband was that in the early days of our nine-year relationship, he..
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Eli Holder

Unfair Comparisons: How Visualizing Social Inequality Can Make It Worse

Our new research shows how popular chart choices can trigger unconscious social biases and reinforce systemic racism. At first glance, the charts below seem harmless...
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Matt Brehmer

At the Vanguard of Interface Design

Implications for visualization from the 2022 UIST symposium The ways in which we interact with data and visualization may look and feel very different in..
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Or Misgav

SPOTLIGHT: Using Dataviz to Inform My Childcare Decisions

My son Ethan was 18-months old when he had his first daycare summer break. It was my first summer break as a mum, and I..
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Mrinal Ghosh

How to Locate and Understand the Reasons for Rising Land Surface Temperature

September 2022 has been one of the hottest Septembers in the last 143-years of global climate record, as per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..
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Senthil Natarajan

Meet the Data Visualization King of Basketball Twitter: Todd Whitehead

Not long ago, I had the opportunity sit down with Todd Whitehead to discuss how he creates visualizations that dominate the discourse. Please note that..
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Joshua Pine

REVIEW: Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization by Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley

The multi-disciplinary nature of the data visualization profession presents opportunities for fruitful collaboration while also leading to points of tension. One such source of tension..
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Mark Palmer

How to Get Executives on Board with Data Visualization

Convincing senior executives to jump on the data visualization bandwagon isn’t as complicated as you think: here are five tips to get senior decision-makers on..
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Emma Tait

No Straight Lines: My Process Is Messy and Full of Failures and That’s Okay

The DVS Mentorship Program revolutionized my creative process: learning is iterative, failure is vital, growth comes in many forms, and straight lines are overrated.  No..
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Ama Nyame-Mensah

When Oversimplification Obscures

When I first entered the information design space, I was eager to expand my knowledge of data (visualization) design and the wide range of disciplines..
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Mara Pometti

Data Storytelling Is the Conduit for Modern Data Literacy

All the images in this article are taken from a keynote about humanizing AI that I delivered in June 2022 at the London Tech Week...
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Andriana Georgieva, Laura Meloni, Cesco Reale & Edgar Walthert

Say It in Icons! – The KomunIKON Project

My language limits are my world limits
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Nick Desbarats

Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)

tl;dr: After teaching many data professionals about bullet graphs and using them in many dashboards, I started to notice that they had a fair number..
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Caitlin Cowen

Woven Time: Thoughts on Our Experience of Time in a Mashup

Our experience of time is simplest described like this: we move forward, and we measure periods by units like seconds, minutes, hours, etc. But I..