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,..
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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..
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Paul Kahn
From Creation to Migration, Part 3: Cosmology in the Small
We find Cosmology in the large among sacred and political monuments. Information about our origins and our place in the universe is also encoded in..
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Paul Kahn
Diving into Global Information Design, Part 2: Cosmology in the Large
Nine Themes for Frame Four Classification is an intellectual act, performed as often in the name of theology as in the name of science. The..
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Allen Hillary
Michelle Rial’s New Book Dreams of Being on Your Coffee Table
Michelle Rial is a San Francisco–based information designer who readily admits she has a slight obsession with charts. Her works of art have been featured..
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Phil Hawkins
So You Want to Pick a Dataviz Platform
Ok Phil, your first ever column got 2,000 clicks in two days. Now. You need to keep that momentum going, boy! Failure to make a..
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Amanda Makulec
Pros and Cons of Chart Taxonomies
Chart taxonomies are a popular starting place for people new to data visualization, but do they unnecessarily constrain our thinking and ignore the fundamentals of..
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Paul Kahn
Global Information Design, Part 1: A New Framework for Understanding Data Visualization
Patterns of Lines Information designers and dataviz practitioners today face a daily challenge: what technique, method, software, or code library to use for their next..
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Andy Kirk
What Makes A Data Visualisation Elegant?
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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