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..
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Phoenix
Discovering Data Visualisation: How I Discovered and Fell in Love with Data Visualisation Art
I stumbled upon data visualisation art quite by accident early in 2022, at a time when I was at an interesting crossroads in my life...
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Salomé Esteves
“I Can’t Draw” and Other Conversations I Always Have with My Dataviz Students
When you, like me, have been teaching for a while, you realize there’s a fundamental paradox: no two clusters of students are alike, yet all..
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