Tag: Data Visualization

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Chesca Kirkland

CoViz-19: 10 Things I Learnt from 75 Days Alone in Lockdown

National lockdown was particularly scary for me as I was living in a tiny flat in Brighton, with no private outdoor space, on furlough and..
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Erica Gunn

Dashboard Redesign: Understanding Purpose

This article is part of a series that illustrates how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous installments focused on understanding the audience and..
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Rohan Jhunja

Putting Three Meals on the Table

At Gramener, we each took up a personal data challenge over the month of December 2020. Since my family at home had been fighting over how..
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Andy Krackov & Sarah Marikos

Asterisk Nation: One Tribe’s Challenge to Find Data About its Population

The Yurok Tribe in far northern California needs to address a condition plaguing numerous rural communities in the United States: addiction and substance misuse. Across..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Food for Thought: Part 1 of a Yearlong Personal Data Project

Hello! I’m a student, data journalist, and designer with a love for all things dataviz. In accordance with annual traditions, I spent a lot of..
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Katie Kilroy

What is Data Scaffolding?

Even if you’ve never heard of data scaffolding, it’s likely that you have (or will face!) a data problem of your own for which scaffolding..
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Cory Cone

Finding a Through Line, or My Creative Process Is a Mess, So Is Life, and That’s Okay (Probably)

On December 10th, 2020, I presented my Master’s thesis over Zoom to a panel of guests and other members of my cohort in the Data..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

From Triad to Qualitative

In this writing, I discuss how to work with a Triad color harmony to create a qualitative color scheme. Qualitative color schemes use colors to label different..
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datacitron

I Had a Chat with Alberto Cairo before Giving a Talk, Here’s What He Told Me

5 tips from an experienced speaker A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure to have a friendly, little call with Alberto Cairo as part of..
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Javier Sanchez Gutierrez

Data Visualization in Parasite

A few months after becoming the first Korean film awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, the president of the jury, Alejandro G. Iñarritu,..
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Silvia Romanelli

Engaging Your Dashboard Users through User Testing

User testing is not common practice in internal KPI dashboard projects. Yet, it can bring much valuable insight, helping create a better user experience. On..
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Inbal Rief & Ravid Rief

“Not on our watch.” The Spirit of Women Activists and the Political Violence against Them during the COVID-19 Pandemic Burst

On August 8th, ‘Women Weaving Reality’ marched silently in Jerusalem towards the Israeli parliament. Dressed in shades of red, Jewish and Arab women joined together to represent..
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Erica Gunn

Who Is Your Chart For?

This is the fourth in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article focused on cleaning up the..
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Alli Torban

How to Create Wonder with Data and a Physical Object

“And the T-Rex was SO big!” squealed my best friend Emily, who was sitting next to me on the bus ride to Kindergarten. It was..
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Kat Greenbrook

My Plastic Footprint: a Physical Data Visualisation Project

We measure and collect data on things we want to understand. In understanding the numbers, we hope to learn more about the world we live..
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Claire Santoro

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:..