Data Visualization, Nightingale, Page 19

Elle Gover

Dataviz Horror Stories: Jon Schwabish

Jon Schwabish, co-author with Alice Feng of the “Do No Harm” guide, tells his children five things: Be honest Be kind Be respectful Be hard..

Claire Santoro

Three Questions With… Julie Brunet (aka datacitron)

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale, Nightingale’s biweekly newsletter. Building on her former position as a literature teacher and five years as..

Mary Aviles

Curiouser and Curiouser: Crafting Questions and Attending to the Answers

Adjacent skills—some of which are referred to as “soft” skills (such an inappropriately diminutive moniker)—can serve you both personally and professionally. My goal in this..

Gulrez Khan

Drawing Data with Kids

For many of us, the pandemic has merged the two worlds of “home” and “office.” On the rare occasions that I used to work from..

Amy Cesal, J. K. Dru & Jill A. Brown

Announcing the 2021 Data Visualization SOTI Survey Challenge!

The Data Visualization Society is pleased to announce a two-month challenge, focused on the results of the 2021 Data Visualization State of the Industry (SOTI)..

Amanda Makulec

Five Questions to Ask When Starting Out in Dataviz at a Consulting Firm

Within the Data Visualization Society we frequently talk about the growing availability of full-time data visualization opportunities, including working as a data visualization consultant. If..

Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Color Scheming from a Vintage Visualization

In this writing, I discuss how to build fresh color schemes from a vintage visualization. I use a bubble chart created in the 1890s as..

Oscar So

“What are you going to write for your second?” – An interview with Kenneth Field

Recently, I had the chance to interview Kenneth Field about his newly published book, Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data. Kenneth is..

Claire Santoro

Communicating Climate Risk: Insights from the IPCC Information Design Team

This week marks the end of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), which is being billed as “the world’s best last chance to get..

Andy Krackov

Dashboards Are Not Data Stories

A few months ago, a longtime client asked if my data communication consultancy could build out a dashboard display for health collaboratives in California doing..

Nick Desbarats

I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?

tl;dr: After having explained how to read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not workshop..

Ilena Peng

What Data Visualization and Analysis Taught One Activist about Airbnb’s Impact on Communities

Activist and technologist Murray Cox has been described as a “Lone Data Whiz” who is Airbnb’s “Public Enemy No. 1 in New York.” These monikers..

Evelina Judeikytė

Sponsor Outlier!

Does your organization value data visualization? Please consider sharing this message with them! Outlier – the global virtual data visualization conference – will be back..

Liubov Popovets

Analytics of Avant-Garde: How Soviet Artists Designed Data

Internet research teaches us that people don’t read a text, but scan it. Fonts, pictures, and charts are used to highlight important ideas. A hundred..

Simran Parwani

Early Career Corner: Meet Dzifa Amexo

I feel so lucky to be the Early Career Director at DVS: I get to talk to all sorts of people about data visualization and..

Mary Aviles & Jason Forrest

Information Empowerment Bridges Expertise to Amplify Impact, Part 2

Part two of a six-part series on the application of design thinking for data practitioners, business intelligence analysts, researchers, and anyone working with data. Catch..

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