Tag: Data Visualization

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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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Tiffany France

Choosing Fonts for Your Data Visualization

The purpose of data visualization is to provide a layout that relays lots of information quickly. Good visualizations help the user understand complicated data without..
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Alana Pirrone

Visualizing Likert Scale Data: Same Data, Displayed Seven Different Ways

Working with research and evaluations teams, I’m often faced with the question of how to effectively display Likert scale data. If you are not familiar..
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Claire Santoro

Three Questions with… Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick

This content originally appeared as part of The ‘Gale newsletter. This issue’s installment of “Three Questions With …” is a double feature! Today we’re chatting..
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Will Chase

Constructing a Career in Data Visualization: The How

In my first essay, I touted my status as a “self-taught” designer and developer — this was a lie. Or rather, a mischaracterization, for almost no..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Simply Scattered: Enhancing Color With Geometry in a Visualization

In my previous “Colorizing a Visualization” writing, I covered the analogous and complementary color harmonies. Today, I will discuss a hybrid of the two harmonies..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

From Camera Roll to Color Harmony: Greening a Visualization

A smart phone with a camera allows us to easily capture images of colors and the world around us. With an app like Adobe Capture, it..
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Mary Aviles

Thoughtful Design: The Power of Naive Optimism

I hope that I am raising my three children to be inquisitive, innovative thinkers (and also good humans!). Design thinking was not a capital-T Thing..
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Alexandre Morin-Chassé

The Stellar Chart: An Elegant Alternative to Radar Charts

Radar charts, also called web charts, spider charts or star charts, are often used to display various characteristics of a profile simultaneously. Whether it presents..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Color Brewing the Perfect Storm

Today, I describe my previous 2008 efforts to colorize a Perfect Storm data simulation while I was at the Renaissance Computing Institute at North Carolina State University...
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Federica Fragapane

Can Data Visualization Help Us Talk to Children About Earth?

Writing with visual alphabets As a data visualization designer, I think about the pieces I’m working on as the visual equivalent of articles or stories...
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Claire Santoro

Visualizing Energy Production in the U.S.

Are renewables on the rise? Depends where you are. Energy: we all use it, but we rarely think about where it comes from. That’s a..