Tag: Data Visualization

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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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Victor Saenger

Drawing Neurons From Sound And Music In Real-Time

Inspired by Neuroscience, we can start to answer the question: What does music look like? I know that I am not the only one that,..
“Who are you here to see?” An illustration of an exhibition of Mona’s work that showcases visualizations of the extent of inequality in art spaces.P
Noëlle Rakotondravony

Power to the Powerless: An Interview With Mona Chalabi

Mona Chalabi is a data journalist and data editor at The Guardian US, where she publishes columns about data visualization that relate to the news. Prior to that, she..
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Paul Kahn

Global Information Design, Part 4: Maps = Eyes + Imagination, Envisioning the Known World

A map is a diagram of a place. It shows us the physical relationships among the details. A map locates things we can touch and..
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Neil Richards

Encode 2019: Our Round-up of Round-ups

Last month, the inaugural Encode conference took place in London. The conference focused on the pillars of design, education, and journalism within data visualisation. A..
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Michael Yi

How to Choose Colors for Your Data Visualizations

Color is a major factor in creating effective charts. A good set of colors will highlight the story you want the data to tell, while..