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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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

Lilach Manheim

The Most Important Role You’re Not Hiring for Your Data Team: The Information Architect

Ever since the Data Scientist was proclaimed the sexiest job of the 21st century, other predictions abound as to what might be the next must-have role..

Walter Paixão Côrtes

How to Use Grafana for Data Visualization

Chances are, if your data visualization background comes from outside of IT, you have never heard anything about Grafana. Grafana has primarily been used for..