Tag: Data Visualization

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Mark Palmer

Start with the Hero, Not the Story

To do a better job with data, take a moment to define your hero. Kat Greenbrook advises data analysts to start with the who, not..
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Krisztina Szucs

SPOTLIGHT: Animated Sports Results

This article is a summary of the animated data visualizations I’ve created for UEFA Euros 2020, Copa America, Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (fencing, swimming), 19th..
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Noëlle Rakotondravony

Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization: A Behind-the-Scene Q&A with the Authors

If you ever wondered how to make a visualization or a dashboard that’s beautiful and functional at the same time, then read on. I had..
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Joshua Pine

REVIEW: Cole Knaflic’s Storytelling with You: Plan, Create and Deliver a Stellar Presentation

We have all been on the receiving end of bad presentations. Slide decks with too much text, cluttered data visualizations and presenters who read from..
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Kosma Hess

Five Inspiring Data Visualization Galleries

If designed with care and preparation, data visualization can immensely improve viewers’ understanding of what is happening. Yes, data exploration and data analysis are essential,..
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Or Misgav

Can We Understand Blood Test Results without Numbers? Ask Participant 23

About a year ago, I handed in my dissertation. I was examining new visualisation of blood test results amongst UK patients. The aim was to..
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Sarah Clark

What’s Cookin’?

Years ago, I took the advice of a famous writer whose name I can’t recall. He suggested that for an idea to be thoroughly examined,..
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William Careri

REVIEW: Be Data Driven by Jordan Morrow

Following up on his first book, which considered data from the individual level, Jordan Morrow’s Be Data Driven looks at harnessing the power of data..
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Aaron Siegel

Dreaming of Data

For as long as I can remember, I have struggled with getting a good night’s sleep. I have often gravitated towards staying up late at..
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Celia López

A Tale of Books and Bias

Books were one of our first methods of data storytelling-beyond speaking or paintings. Humans turned data into words, and now we have begun to turn..
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Lisa Valade-DeMelo

Inspired by the Future: Star Trek and the Rise of Dataviz

The challenge of any piece of science fiction – be it literature, film or TV – is to present a complete and realistic view of..
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Annick Rietz

How Long Does It Take to Fall in Love?

Humans have long been curious about the process of dating and finding the right person. Now that we can swipe left and right on the..
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Milán Janosov

Game of Thrones — Network of the Dragon

One of my first data science projects was titled, Who Dies Next in the Game of Thrones?—a short article based on my data mining semester..
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Kat Greenbrook

Reasons to Visualise the Same Data, Differently

You may have heard, “data visualisation should tell a story” – but this is not always true. Data visuals are created for many reasons: from..
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Adam Korengold

Insights Of Their Own: Visualizing Women’s Baseball

Viz by the author.
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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..