Tag: Data Visualization

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Jonathan Dunne

Endless River: An Overview of Dataviz for Categorical Data

Let us explore some flow and network chart types that are ready-made for visual storytelling using categorical data  As a data scientist, I am surrounded..
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Heather Jones

SPOTLIGHT: Designer Dogs

For TIME’s annual Answers Issue in 2014, the graphics department was tasked with presenting data-driven visual solutions to both simple and complex questions, and compiling..
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Amy Cesal

Highlights from the DVS Accessibility Fireside Chat

On July 28, 2021, the Data Visualization Society hosted a Fireside Chat to discuss accessibility in data visualization. I moderated a panel of community members..
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Francis Gagnon

Como fazer para que as suas propostas de design sejam aprovadas pelo cliente

Read this article in English here or en français ici.Translation by Vivan Andreozzi É fácil apontar o dedo para os clientes quando falhamos como designers. Preferimos pensar..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Creating a Perceptual Uniform Color Scheme By Combining I Want Hue And Viz Palette

In this writing, I discuss how to use the “i want hue” web app with Viz Palette  to create perceptually uniform color schemes for data..
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Jeremy Kuzub

Aurora Speeding Tickets

Before smartphones, digital cameras, and orbiting satellites, the international scientific community recruited volunteer observers across the globe to record and report aurora borealis activity as..
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Francis Gagnon

How To Get Your Design Ideas Through a Client

Read this article en français ici or em portugues aqui. Clients are an easy target to blame for our failings as designers. We like to think..
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Francis Gagnon

Comment faire accepter vos designs à vos clients?

Read this article in English here or em portugues aqui. Les clients sont un bouc émissaire facile pour nos échecs en tant que designers. Nous..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Elijah Meeks

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter.For the inaugural “Three Questions With …” we caught up with Elijah Meeks. Elijah is the Chief Visualization Officer..
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Martina Zunica

SPOTLIGHT: 100 Bridgerton Colors

This project started from my interest in extracting color palettes from scenes of everyday life—I like to take pictures of what is all around me..
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Emilia Ruzicka

You’ve Got Mail: Part 5 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fifth installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the fourth part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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John Polk

You’ve Visualized Your Data, Now Actualize Your Promotion

I sat through approximately 160 cross-calibration conversations for analysts in my career. A cross-cal is how many companies ensure associates get a fair performance rating..
Some of W. E. B. DuBois’s original charts in the background and their #DuBoisChallenge recreations.R
Pearle Lundeen

REVIEW: Data + Diversity-Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois

I identify as “new to data.” So, when I attended Tableau’s February Data + Diversity talk, I was totally sending out imposter syndrome vibes. In..
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Gomathy Viswanathan

What Is the Bechdel Test and What Is Its Relevance to Today’s Film Industry?

The film industry is one of the most impactful sectors in our society and it has been influencing our values and opinions for decades now...
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Loris Mat

SPOTLIGHT: The Process behind “Among Us” and What I Learned from the DVS Census Challenge

Loris’s visualization won first place in this year’s Data Visualization Society Census Challenge, exploratory category. As a data visualization designer hobbyist, participating in the DVS Census..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Emilia Ruzicka

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Today, we’re getting to know one of our regular Nightingale writers, Emilia Ruzicka. Emilia studied data journalism..