Tag: Data Visualization

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Hendra Setiawan & Moinak Bhaduri

Reaching for Suns and Black Holes in Outer Space: Analysing Global Investment Systems as Emerging Galaxies

In the past, international investments were the privilege of a select few with the resources to overcome the high barrier of entry. They were generally..
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Nightingale Editors

DVS Mentor Spotlight: Anastasia Stevens

The Data Visualization Society’s Mentorship Program has been instrumental in shaping the paths of aspiring individuals in our community. The mentors who make up this..
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Good Morning Data #5 | The Half-Full Learning Curve

The Half-Full Learning Curve or “Could we be happy with what we already know?“I sighed at the sight of the calendar I was holding in my..
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Victor Muñoz & Kevin Ford

Implementing the Solution Framework in a Social Impact Project

Those who know me will see that I love documenting every step of my data visualization process. I believe there’s so much to learn from..
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Jennifer Frazier

Beyond Storytelling With Data: Guidelines for Designing Exploratory Visualizations

Visualizations are essential for telling the stories of science. Through visualized data we can be transported to far off nebulas or trace our genetic connections..
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Christopher Laubenthal & Saloni Goel

Schools of Thought: The DVS Mentorship Program

Friendship can feel effortless as a child. Yet as we step into adulthood, human connection becomes more difficult. Given the plethora of articles on this..
A book cover titled "Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI" by Nell Watson. The cover features a dark blue background with the title text in large, light blue and white font. Below the title is an abstract, wavy line graphic, representing the flow of information or signals. The author's name is at the bottom in bold white text. The Kogan Page logo is in the lower right corner. The background outside the book cover is a light blue field with a pattern of black dots creating a wavy, grid-like effect, enhancing the sense of digital or AI-related content.R
Catherine Ramsdell

Review of Nell Watson’s Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI

With terms like artificial super intelligence, brain-computer interface, and cyborg models peppered throughout, Nell Watson’s book Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI..
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Nightingale Editors

DVS Mentor Spotlight: Mikael Dewabrata

The Data Visualization Society’s Mentorship Program has been instrumental in shaping the paths of aspiring individuals in our community. The mentors who make up this..
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Darren Shearer

Above the Averages

When analysing workforce data, age is often a critical metric that provides insight into the overall health and future trajectory of an organisation. However, simply..
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Good Morning Data #4 | The Vacation Paradox

The Vacation Paradox or “Why are we the most productive when we’re off?“ The domino set was missing its double 5 as well as the..
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Bahareh Zahirodini & Moinak Bhaduri

The Stuff We Cannot Sweep Under a Torn Carpet: Perfectly Imperfect Tessellations From Slices of Maslow’s Triangle

Few folks doubt the value of repetitions in any information-giving context. Shrewdly deployed, repetitions can be a powerful tool to ensure something stays memorable. Comedians..
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Christopher Laubenthal

AUGH! WHY IS THIS DIFFICULT? Picking a Dataset to Viz

“If you give a donkey two servings of food, equidistant apart and of equal quality, then the animal starves.” This was a saying I heard..
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Nancy Organ

on her new book, Data Visualization for People of All AgesNancy Organ is a Seattle-based data visualization practitioner and author of Data Visualization for People..
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Nightingale Editors

Five Years of the Nightingale Community!

In July 2019, a new publication emerged in the world of data visualization. Nightingale set out to fill a void in the community, offering a..
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Erica Gunn

Step 9 in the Data Exploration Journey: Chart Choices

Both the purpose and the audience for our charts shifted during that transition, and it was important to think carefully about what we needed the charts to do.
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Shri Khalpada

‘The Data Diaries’: Building a Viral Interactive Visualization of Wordle

I’ve been an avid Wordle player for a few years now. As a daily ritual, it gives me an easy way to get my brain..