Did Data Visualization Erase the Woman from Women’s Work?
As the world changed over the past two years, more and more of my friends took to handcrafts like quilting and knitting as a counterbalance..
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Nicholas Rougeux
Encyclopedic Data Art
The digital edition of Iconographic Encyclopædia was a year-long project to breathe new life into an antique. In recent years, I’ve undertaken several of these..
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Jonathan Schwabish & Claire McKay Bowen
Data4Kids: A Collaborative Project to Teach Kids about Data
When the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down in-person learning, we knew education wouldn’t be the same. How could kids—especially younger kids in elementary and middle..
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William Careri
Designing for Neurodivergent Audiences
When a group of autistic individuals coined the term neurodiversity in an attempt to redefine their identity, few would accurately predict the impact it would..
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Charles Miglietti
Effective Data Visualizations Should Focus on Narrative, Not Numbers
Data visualization is an incredibly powerful tool — but too often, it’s underutilized or simply misused by brands and other organizations. That’s not just because people..
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Nick Desbarats
A Map of Data Visualization (For Discussion!!)
The data visualization field is fascinating and I feel incredibly fortunate to be working in it, but, frankly, it’s also kind of a mess: It’s..
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Anthony Starks
The #DuBois Challenge
In February 2021, people on Twitter were challenged to re-create the historical data visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois. The goal of the challenge was to..
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Evelina Judeikytė
Submit Your Work for the Outlier Viz Exhibit!
Are you looking for a space to share your work and get inspired by the work of other data visualization designers? You can submit your..
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Evelina Judeikytė
Host an Unconference Session!
We acknowledge that some folks who applied to speak and were not selected may feel disappointed, and we totally understand that. If time and budget..
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Mollie Pettit
Creating an Inclusive Global Dataviz Conference
It’s amazing to me to think that Amy, Elijah, and I launched The Data Visualization Society just three years ago. I am now about to..
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Anda Lupascu
Big Data, Cute Story
Happy New Year to all! As January ticks on, I think we are all familiar with the contestable tradition of the New Year Resolution. But..
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Neil Richards
REVIEW: How Can We Use Comics to Tell Data Stories?
This post is a review of From Data to Stories, a book from Richie Lionell and Ramya Mylavarapu of Gramener, described on its front page..
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Mary Aviles
REVIEW: Detroit in 50 Maps by Alex B. Hill
In professional and community circles, Detroit can sometimes feel like a small town. I started hearing about Alex B. Hill and his site, Detroitography, early..
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Claire Santoro
Three Questions with… Chuck Burke
This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale, Nightingale’s biweekly newsletter. Chuck Burke is a multidisciplinary information designer with a background in explanatory journalism and academic publishing;..
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Eva Sibinga
SPOTLIGHT: How Do We Measure Unpaid Labor?
I thought a lot about labor and care in the winter and spring of 2021. Like many other people, I spent most of that time..
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Evelina Judeikytė & Yi Ning Wong
Outlier 2022: The Speaker Lineup
Outlier 2022 is coming up and we are so excited to show you what we’ve been preparing this past year. Whether you’re joining us for..
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