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,..
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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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