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Chimdi Nwosu

SPOTLIGHT: W.E.B. Du Bois Portrait Gallery

Chimdi Nwosu’s interactive visualization, the W.E.B. Du Bois Portrait Gallery, is a beautifully designed exploration of 20 re-created Du Bois charts. The gallery won Favorite..

J. K. Dru

Missing Data: Why Don’t We All Take the 2022 DVS SOTI Survey?

September 2022: the Data Visualization Society is running its annual survey about our diverse and dynamic field. I hope many of us will contribute our data this month, and invite people we know. To request your help on both counts, this article discusses three reasons we might *not* take this survey.

Mary Pat Campbell

Dataviz Horror Story: How I Crashed the Top Exec’s Email

Have you ever made an embarrassing mistake in a data visualization? Did you utterly fail to meet your client’s or boss’s vision? Did you proudly..

Joshua Pine

REVIEW: Dan Bouk’ Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

The practice of data storytelling often focuses on weaving a narrative by highlighting themes from a dataset. Author Dan Bouk flips this conventional practice on..

Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec

Dear Nightingale: Paper and NO Pencil?

This article originally appeared in Issue 1 of Nightingale Magazine. Purchase a copy, while supplies last. Paper and no pencil? An analogue data creation challenge!..

Nightingale Editors & Jeremy Singer-Vine

Data Is Plural Visualization Challenge

This article originally appeared in Issue 1 of Nightingale Magazine. Purchase a copy, while supplies last. The Challenge: We’re a community of data visualizers, so let’s do..

Chesca Kirkland

Reflections from Graphic Hunters

After seven years of leading Graphic Hunters, Goof van de Winkel’s data visualisation training programme will come to a close this autumn. We had the..

Joseph Ricafort

Creating Personas to Identify Yourself in the Community and Data

In this post, I am going to walk you through the process of creating the Data Visualization Society State of the Industry Survey 2021 Challenge..

Nikita Rokotyan

How to Visualize a Graph with a Million Nodes

Large-scale graph visualizations are tricky. The more nodes and edges you have in your network, the more difficult it is to compute the layout for..

Mary Aviles, datacitron, Jason Forrest & Claire Santoro

You Asked for It: Nightingale Magazine Issue 1 Alternate Covers

Many Nightingale Magazine readers have expressed appreciation for our first issue cover. We’re delighted with this reception — we love it, too — but, our..

Jenn Schilling

A Design Process for Dataviz

Design is a plan to create something that will be beneficial to people. Design involves considering both the form and the function of the final..

Erica Gunn

Step 3 in the Data Exploration Journey: Productive Tangents

This article is part IV in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new...

Brianna Wilson

Embracing Mobile to Make Your Data Visualizations More Equitable

Most of us have issues we care deeply about, whether they are large or small, individual or societal. When you think about the issues that..

Shachee Swadia

The Declutter and Focus Concepts – Popular Academic Opinions or Effective Design Principles?

Declutter and focus are two guidelines for creating clear and efficient visualizations. The declutter guideline suggests removing all the non-critical elements of the chart like..

Letícia Pozza

Experimentação Para Gerar Novas Descobertas Em Dataviz

Find the English translation of this article here. Para algumas pessoas, criar uma visualização de dados incrível exige que os astros estejam alinhados. Mas a..