Tag: Data Visualization

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Martina Zunica

SPOTLIGHT: 100 Days of Happiness

2022 has just started and I’m taking stock of the last year, of achievements, loved ones, and things to work on. Have I lived at..
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Claire Santoro

Getting to know… Jarrett C. Hurms

The dataviz community is broad and encompasses practitioners from a range of backgrounds, professions, and interests. In an effort to get to know the community,..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Very Peri Pantone 2022 for Your Visualizations

In early December 2021, Very Peri was announced as the 2022 Pantone Color of the Year. Today, let’s explore how to integrate this new color..
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Kristin Briney

Crafting a COVID Visualization: How I Processed Pandemic Anxiety and Grief with Yarn

I spent December 2020 recovering from COVID. I got sick via an outbreak at my children’s daycare during the third U.S. COVID wave that overwhelmed..
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Evelina Judeikytė

Send Us Your Lightning Talks!

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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Danièle Gibney

Crossing into Datavis

For the past year or so, I’ve been using cross stitch as a medium to develop my interest in data visualisation. Here’s a run-down of..
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Erica Gunn

Embrace the Challenge to Beat Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome came up as a common struggle in October’s Topics in Data Visualization discussion about education on the DVS Slack channel. When talking about..
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Milán Janosov

A Network Map of The Witcher

The Witcher, a fantasy novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, has inspired multiple computer games and was even launched on Netflix in 2019, with the latest..
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Rajesh Sigdel

Visualizing Hispaniola

With the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the kidnapping of 17-foreign born missionaries, and a destructive earthquake which left thousands dead, Haiti is once again..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

My Journey in Un-Colorizing a Data Visualization

In this writing, I discuss my adventure in transitioning my “Process of Colorizing a Data Visualization” to a Greyscale illustration. I learned that it was actually a..
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Nick Desbarats

Does Data Visualization Have Rules? Or Is It All Just “It Depends”?

tl;dr: In the data visualization community, there are those who believe that there are universal rules such as “Never use pie charts”, or, “Always include..
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Erin Waldron

A Poet’s Perspective: Seven Reasons Why Your Dataviz Team Should Include an Analyst from the Humanities

I was once auto-rejected from a job I had written for myself. After several interviews, my soon-to-be manager asked me to delineate the responsibilities I..
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Evelina Judeikytė

Register for Outlier!

You can now get your ticket for the global virtual Outlier 2022 event!  Like last year, we offer multiple pricing options because we don’t want..
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Simone Betito

REVIEW: Edith Young’s Color Scheme Is the Whimsical Data Visualization Book We Need Right Now

Color Scheme, An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes is not your typical data visualization book. It may be due to..
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Amanda Makulec

What Does the Work of a DVS Board Member Look Like?

We’re excited to be accepting candidates for six open roles on the DVS Board for the 2022-2023 term. You can learn all about the nomination..
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Julia Schaeman

REVIEW: Diaries of the Evergreen Data Academy

I first heard of Stephanie Evergreen in 2012 when I finished my graduate studies and moved to Atlanta, GA. Our company was bringing her in..