Tag: Data Visualization

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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..
A visualization of the design elements of Amanda Rach Lee’s bullet journal over five years from 2017 to 2021, showing the consistency of some features, the parts that got discontinued, and the new sections that were added over the years.S
Elsie Lee-Robbins

SPOTLIGHT: Visualizing Five Years of Bullet Journaling

Bullet journaling is a style of journaling where you start with an empty dot grid notebook, and fill it with different pages that you create..
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Joshua Pine

Telling the Story of Urban Innovation and Pandemic Response with Data

In late March 2020, shortly after COVID-19 was recognized as a global pandemic, the National League of Cities (NLC) partnered with Bloomberg Philanthropies to create..
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Erica Gunn

Step 2 in the Data Exploration Journey: Going Deeper into the Analysis

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