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..
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Erica Gunn
Why Can’t We Have More Fun?
This is part 8 in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article reviewed chart choices..
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Attila Batorfy
György Markos and His Pictorial Information Graphics
The Hungarian Marxist, self-made geographer, and economist György Markos (1902–1976) was not the first to introduce ISOTYPE to the Hungarian public, but he was the..
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Heather Jones
The Circle of Life in All Its Bizarre and Cruel Glory
I designed this spread when I worked in graphics at Time Magazine in May 2013. That year Brood II was emerging and I was totally fascinated by..
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Duncan Geere & Miriam Quick
Loud Numbers and The Natural Lottery
The residents of the town of Nenana in Alaska have an unusual annual tradition. Every March, as the days begin to grow longer and the..
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Julia Krolik
Data Visualization for Kids
It all started when my nine-year-old son brought home his grade four math homework. (We live in Canada and he attends a French immersion program..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Color in a Perceptual Uniform Way
This writing discusses the Hue-Chroma-Luminance (HCL) color space that is tailored to how we see colors as humans. In my previous writings on colorizing data..
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Mala Deep
Five Free Data Visualization Tools for Beginners
We have used data visualization in some way or other since time immemorial, from early cave paintings to today’s advanced information dashboards. The human eye..
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Eli Holder
Dashboard Psychology: Effective Feedback in Data Design
“What you measure, you improve.” You’ve heard this a million times. It sounds nice. It seems plausible. There’s a bunch of evidence supporting it. But..
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Claire Santoro
Three Questions with… Pei Ying Loh
This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Pei Ying Loh is the co-founder and head of Kontinentalist, a data-driven editorial studio based in..
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Matteo Moretti
Data Enabling: the Glocal Climate Change Design Process
What is the surgeon’s work? Saving lives or cutting/sewing bodies? Both. One answer refers to the what, the other answer to the how. In that vein, what is the..
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Emilia Ruzicka
All in a Day’s Work: Part 3 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project
This is the third installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the second part before jumping in, here’s the article about my..
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