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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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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