Three Questions with… Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu
This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. Perfectly timed to align with Nightingale’s Data Sensification Week, we have some exciting, tactile news:..
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Alec Barrett
Where Data Meets Literacy: A Review of Richard Brath’s “Visualizing with Text”
What do a dictionary entry, the Electoral House of Bavaria’s family tree, and Compact Rectangular Euler Diagrams have in common? These are among the dozens..
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Claire Santoro
Three Questions with… Simon Rogers
This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. This week we’re chatting with Simon Rogers, a data journalist and data editor at Google News..
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Mary Aviles
Generating Data Action: How an MIT Professor Hopes Data Can Empower Civic Change
Technology, applied responsibly, has the potential to drive social change. Public tech, sometimes called gov-tech, can connect and mobilize people, improve city experiences, and reduce government..
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Claire Santoro
Three Questions with… Peter Grundy
This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. This installment of “Three Questions With …” features 40-year design veteran Peter Grundy, a London-based..
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Sarah Steimer
Peter Grundy on Informative, Fun, and Elegant Design
Learn how Peter Grundy, 40-year information design veteran, educates his audience through cheery, simple illustrations.
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Mary Aviles
REVIEW: A Guided Virtual Tour of ‘Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination’
Like inventors, explorers, and philosophers, data visualizers have honed their craft through experimentation, abject failure, breakthrough moments, pushing boundaries, and by standing on the shoulders..
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Mary Aviles
Three Questions with… RJ Andrews
This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. On September 25, 2020, the virtual doors of the Stanford Libraries’ swung open to reveal the..
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Krist Wongsuphasawat
Navigating the Wide World of Data Visualization Libraries
Graphics and visualization developers often get presented with a simple yet difficult question: “Which visualization library should I use?” Typically, making this decision is not about..
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Zach Bowders
Viz What You Love
After a long day of meetings, projections, and rigorous data analysis there’s nothing I look forward to more in the evening than sitting down and..
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Bill Shander
The Past, Present, and Future of Scrollytelling
Just as earthquakes are (tangentially) related to presidential elections, so too are avalanches related to data storytelling and visualization. Before I tell you how, though,..
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Will Chase
Constructing a Career in Dataviz: Finding Success
My father grew up on a farm in rural Kansas. His father and grandfather were both builders, and growing up on the farm, he gained..
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Mary Aviles
Indelible Impressions: Why You Won’t Forget the Map Room Project
In my quest to improve data fluency among those who think of themselves as non-data people, I am always on the lookout for physical manifestations..
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Amy Cesal
Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization
Alt text (sometimes called alt tags or alternative text) are written descriptions added to images that convey the meaning of the visual. Good alt text helps more people..
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Isaac Levy-Rubinett
With Great Visualization Comes Great Responsibility
When The New York Times’s visual story How the Virus Got Out published, the two circles of data journalists Youyou Zhou is a member of reacted differently. On..
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Amy Cesal
How to Create Brand Colors for Data Visualization Style Guidelines
The most common push back I hear about creating a unique style guide for data visualization, is “We have a style guide for the brand,..
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