Tag: Data Visualization

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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..
“Data-Driven Storytelling” by N. H. Riche, C. Hurter, N. Diakopoulos and S. CarpendaleD
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..
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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..