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..
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Erica Gunn
How to Use Whitespace, the Punctuation Between Visual Elements
This is the first in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The next installment will apply some..
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Erica Gunn
Designing for Charts
This is the third in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. Previous articles focused on whitespace and..
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Jason Forrest
War and Human Nature
Revisiting a 1946 pamphlet (and the role of pamphlets in educating adults) that helps explain the Jan. 6th insurrection
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Alexandra Khoo
Sweet Love: Popular Wedding Songs Reimagined As Cupcakes
These days, it seems, you can’t attend a wedding without hearing the soft croon of Ed Sheeran at some point. It got me thinking, is..
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Jason Forrest
How I Became Myself Again: What Writing Did for My Self-Worth in 2019
I love year-end lists not only to learn about the best movies, books, articles, and events of the previous year but also because I really..
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Neil Richards
Avoiding Data Pitfalls — an Interview With Ben Jones
We caught up with Ben Jones, the founder and CEO of Data Literacy, and spoke to him about his recent book, Avoiding Data Pitfalls. Ben’s book..
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Jason Forrest
The Greatest Library You’ve Never Heard Of: ‘The Visual Telling Of Stories’
Dr. Chris Mullen’s drive to collect and share information has created a fascinating archive with a focus on Fortunes Magazine and the history of visual..
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Johannes Wirges
What Board Games Teach Us About Data Visualization
Recently I visited the biggest trade fair for board games in the world. The Internationale Spieltage (Spiel) takes place annually in my current hometown of Essen in..
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Rasmus Bøgelund Christiansen
How To Create a B2B Dashboard
What is a dashboard? A dashboard is a view of carefully selected information. In cars, it is a visualization of our speed, the oil and..
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Lorenzo Amabili
Data-Driven Storytelling: A Short Review
Researching how to leverage visual storytelling for medical imaging data analysis, I was looking for a road map to obtain a more structured and solid..
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Andy Krackov
How Can Data Visualization Improve Local Conditions?
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..
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