Tag: Data Visualization

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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..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

The Blues of Color Harmony

As noted previously in “Colorizing a Visualization,” Color Harmony is the process of choosing colors on a Color Wheel that work well together in the composition of..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Colorizing a Visualization

The flow chart above diagrams the process of colorizing a visualization using blank templates from the Interaction of Color app, an invaluable tool both for learning about..
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Silvia Romanelli

Why Should Non-Profits Add Data Visualisation to their Communication Toolkit?

After the corporate sector and journalism, non-profit organisations are slowly starting to put their data to use and visualise it—for example, using numbers, maps, and..
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Will Chase

Constructing a Career in Dataviz: Getting Started

In 1984, when my parents were searching for their first home together, my dad decided the best solution — given their limited budget — was..
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Andy Krackov

Flattening the Curve and Expanding My Understanding

I’ve worked in the field of health data visualization for about 20 years now, so I’m embarrassed to say that, before this week, I hadn’t..
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Mary Aviles

Data Visualization As an Act of Witnessing

In late 2016, I read an article by Michael Brennan, principal of Detroit-based, nonprofit design firm Civilla, in the Harvard Business Review. I was haunted by this line: “I..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Racial Bias in Code and Data: An Interview with Alex Garcia

As a young data journalist, I was advised to attend NICAR — an annual data journalism conference organized by Investigative Editors and Reporters and their suborganization, the National..
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Alexandra Khoo

Four Big Dataviz Myths, Busted

On a dedicated channel, #dvs-topics-in-data-viz, in the Data Visualization Society Slack, our members discuss questions and issues pertinent to the field of data visualization. Discussion..