Tag: Data Visualization

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Alexandra Khoo

REVIEW: Hands-on Data Visualization

As a community-taught dataviz designer, I love digging into the craft of turning data into narrative and finding new ways to combat the dataviz equivalent..
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Claire Santoro

Chatting Xenographics With Maarten Lambrechts

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter.Maarten Lambrechts is a freelance data journalist, data designer, and visualization consultant. Recently, he sat down with Nightingale to..
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Walter Paixão Côrtes

How to in Grafana - Part 2: Creating Interactive Dashboards

This is the second article in a series about Grafana. Part 1 was an intro, demonstrating how to create a simple static dashboard using Grafana,..
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Alena Lorea

SPOTLIGHT: Europe against Racism – in Memoriam to George Floyd

The brutal killing of George Floyd made me rethink many things. Racism is a global problem, but this incident reached a tipping point that drove..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Amanda Makulec

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Back in January, the Data Visualization Society held its first ever Annual General Meeting and elected a..
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Fe Simeoni

Acnephobic: Faces for a Feminist Data Practice

Data visualizations use symbols as a tool to represent a subject. They interpret, simplify, and synthesize – often in a manner detached from the physical..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Are You Not Entertained?: Part 4 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fourth installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the third part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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Ali Tehrani

SPOTLIGHT: How Racially Diverse Are The Oscars, Really?

This article spotlights Ali Tehrani’s design process. This visualization was featured as Tableau’s Viz of the Day on April 26, 2021.Earlier this year, I came..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Eli Holder

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Eli Holder is principal of 3iap (3 is a pattern), where he helps clients design and..
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Leon Bueno

Brazil Deforests the Amazon by Areas Equivalent to the Size of 230 Manhattans Annually

The Amazon is important not just for Brazil, but also for the whole world. Here are four of the many reasons:1) PrecipitationThrough transpiration, the Amazon..
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Gwen Agbota

SPOTLIGHT: Visualizing the Political Regimes in the World

Gwen’s visualization won second place in this year’s Data Visualization Society Black In Data challenge. Like most people on the planet last year, I was..
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Fredrick Boshe

Three Reasons Why It Is Time to Adopt a Seafood Diet

Human diets can be as unique as fingerprints. We all have our quirks, from general preferences like red meat to vegetarian or vegan to finer..
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Amanda Makulec

Announcing the Data Viz Society’s New Membership Opportunities

In February 2019, the Data Visualization Society launched with a website, a Google form, and a vision from our three founders to be a tool-agnostic,..
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Hilje de Boer

The Lie Factor and the Baseline Paradox

Within the history of data visualisation, there have been written numerous books with rules on how to properly visualise data. When I started off in..
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Rajesh Sigdel

Using Infographics to Make Climate Change More Visible to the Public

Climate change may not be a directly observable phenomenon, but its impacts are currently threatening the lives of all living organisms. Although the majority of..
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Jason Forrest & Mary Aviles

NIGHTINGALE IS FREE!

Last week Nightingale celebrated a major achievement. Since our launch in 2019, we always planned to have a stand-alone website and create a platform to..