A Matter of Time: Linking Job Titles to Data Visualization Tasks
Is there any difference in the amount of time we allocate to the different phases of a data visualization project, depending on our professional role?..
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Jenn Schilling
Early Sketches for Career Portraits in Data Visualization
This article is part of a larger effort to leverage the DVS Survey data to provide useful insights about data visualization to our members. Previous..
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Neil Richards
REVIEW: Dr. Selena Fisk’s I’m Not a Numbers Person
When I came across I’m not a numbers person and learned about Dr. Selena Fisk, I knew that I would be interested in reading the..
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Ama Nyame-Mensah
Beyond the Bar: Alternative Methods for Visualizing Two Points of Change
People love comparisons, whether between two groups or the difference in an outcome between two time points. Many data (visualization) designers use a clustered bar..
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Claire Santoro
Noisy Cities: Behind the Scenes with Karim Douïeb
Karim Douïeb is a Brussels-based data scientist and co-founder of Jetpack.ai. He is also the creator of an unexpectedly-viral U.S. election map that he spoke..
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Nick Desbarats
Are Vertical Line Charts Ever a Good Idea?
I recently asked dataviz Twitter if anyone could point to situations in which a vertical line chart was the best chart type for that situation...
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Mary Aviles, datacitron, Jason Forrest & Claire Santoro
Nightingale Magazine, Issue 1 Retro: What We Learned
Now that the Spring 2022 issue of Nightingale Magazine is showing up in mailboxes all around the world, the editorial team wanted to share some..
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Evelina Judeikytė
Behind the Scenes of the First Nightingale Magazine with Its Creative Director
Enjoy an exclusive interview with Nightingale’s creative director Julie Brunet (datacitron) on how the magazine came to life. This interview originally appeared in #ThePlot newsletter...
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Michael Friendly
Remembrances of Things EDA
Published for Tukey Day, June 16, the 107th anniversary of John Tukey’s birthThis article recounts the origins and influences of the movement in statistics and data..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Watching for Peas and Carrots: Solving the Green and Orange Dilemma in Data Visualization
In this writing, I discuss the challenge of working with a green and orange color scheme in data visualization. Unfortunately, 99 percent of people with..
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Claire Santoro
Three Questions with… Jason Forrest
Jason Forrest is the Director of the McKinsey & Co. Data Visualization Lab and Editor-in-Chief of Nightingale. Check out his writing for Nightingale here.1. If..
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John Polk
Get behind Me, Titivillus! How to Avoid Mistakes in Your Work
Meet Titivillus. His LinkedIn profile describes him as a demon who works for Satan to introduce errors into the works of scribes. Imagine if you..
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Jason Forrest
Patrick Abercrombie’s “The Greater London Plan”
One of my favorite works of data visualization is a map from “The Greater London Plan” in 1944. This semi-abstract map by Patrick Abercrombie and..
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Eli Holder
Timely Advice – How Long Does Dataviz Take?
Visualizing 3iap timesheets for 10 dataviz client projects. How much time goes into researching, data-wrangling, designing, and building different types of data visualizations? Every client..
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Tiziana Alocci
Exploring Necessity, a Personal Data Art Project, by Tiziana Alocci
Tiziana Alocci, an award-winning information designer and lecturer based in London, recently launched a new data art series, Necessity. To learn more about the project,..
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Yan Holtz
SPOTLIGHT: The Pinterest of Data Visualisation
150 stunning chart examples, and growing! I’ve just created a website called dataviz-inspiration.com and it showcases hundreds of stunning dataviz projects I’ve encountered in the..
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