T 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.
Q 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.
A 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.
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.
M 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.
D 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.
D 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.
D 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.
W Antonia Hadjimichael Weaving Data Viz Into Science and Engineering Education A Penn State course introduced STEM students to data visualization, teaching them design fundamentals and how to be supportive practitioners.
D Elena Etter Data Visualization: A Subjective Lens on Reality An analysis of three elements that influence data visualization and that render the underlying data to be more subjective than objective.
T Duncan Bradley Taking Time Is an Effective Way To Process Large Numbers A striking memorial to the victims of COVID-19 in the UK reveals a neglected temporal dimension of data visualisation.
F Lindsey Poulter Finding The Right Elements For an Award-Winning Dashboard Lindsey Poulter won the World Data Viz Prize using a mix of dashboard features—including a shuffle button to randomize the view.
T Chesca Kirkland The Making of “The Growing Influence of the Warming Stripes” Chesca Kirkland shows the process behind her visualisation—from Nightingale Issue 2—that explores the growing influence of the Warming Stripes.
U Milán Janosov Using Color to Interpret a Complex Network of Threatened Species In a busy network diagram of threatened land mammals, different color treatments show how the animals' habitats are geographically connected.
E Marília Ferreira da Cunha Everything You Wanted To Know About The DVS 2023 Outlier Conference Outlier is around the corner! Catch up on what's on the agenda and how to make the most out of the experience—whether in-person or virtual.
T Elisavet Andrikopoulou Touching Data: Conducting a Survey With Paper and Thread To collect data on how students preferred to be graded, a professor ran a physicalization exercise that collected and visualised the results.