Tag: Data Visualization

A column chart covering years 2018 to 2024 with each year's number increasing. On top of that is a line chart that is measuring the cumulative total of the column chart. In both charts low totals are in grey and large totals in green.R
Christopher Laubenthal

Rapid Fire: Scaling a Portfolio with Design Components

There are many ways that can speed your development cycle from data cleanliness to clarity of your user’s needs. My efficiency lay in the use of component-driven design.
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Natalia Kiseleva

Flowers and Numbers

Explore the process of creating data visualization badges for a community using flowers and numbers. Creating a local data art community!
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Tyler Sloan

Color Jitter: Using Randomness to Augment Categorical Visualizations

A colormap can enrich a story by anchoring the value mapping to our shared experience or symbolism.
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Liuhuaying Yang & Paul Kahn

Visualization Through Interdisciplinary Creativity

Complexity Science is a new scientific practice that is inherently interdisciplinary. It links state-of-the-art mathematics, modeling, data, and computer science with fundamental questions posed by various disciplines, such as medicine, economics, ecology, or social sciences.
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CLEVER°FRANKE

The Evolution and Future of Interactive Data Visualization (Part 3)

The Web 2.0 era saw the rise of user-generated content and interactivity, sparking new possibilities for interactive data visualizations.
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Alex Kolokolov

From Analysis to Improvement: How Students Transform Projects

A design exploration to improve a global conflict dashboard with a new layout and interactivity.
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Kristin Baumann

Recreating Historical Dataviz: Three Tricks I Learned In The Du Bois Data Visualization Challenge

With the analogy of a client project, I wanted to deliver the recreations as close to the original as possible using my tools of choice (D3.js and Svelte).
A row of headshots, each of new DVS board members, with a colored circle around each respectively. The DVS logo sits behind the headshots.3
Nightingale Editors

3 Data Points from New DVS Board Members

The start to 2024 saw the induction of seven new Data Visualization Society board members. As they begin their respective duties to elevate DVS, we wanted to offer them the chance to introduce themselves, asking them a few questions along the way. Get to know the new DVS board members!
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CLEVER°FRANKE

The Evolution and Future of Interactive Data Visualization (Part 2)

The second installment in a series on the evolution and future of interactive data visualization. The early years of the internet.
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Darren Shearer

Flags and Figures

In both vexillology and data visualisation, the elegance lies in simplicity, the power in clarity, and the beauty in purposeful design.
Portions of four, different data visualizations stitched together each with different topics, styles, and backgrounds.S
Christopher Laubenthal

Stop Trying to Prove Yourself with a Viz

Every data visualization job that I have held has included introducing my work to teammates and then feeling like I have to impress them.
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CLEVER°FRANKE

The Evolution and Future of Interactive Data Visualization (Part 1)

As humans, we have always had the urge to chart the world around us. This urge has pushed us to improve the way we collect, process, and communicate information throughout history.
Three images of Saturn's changing rings between 2023, 2024, and 2025, where the rings are most visible in 2023, less visible in 2024, and least visible in 2025.V
Samantha Nicklaus

Visualizing the History of Saturn and its Rings

In March 2025, Saturn’s rings will disappear. Well, this isn’t entirely true. NASA has confirmed that the rings will disappear, yes, but they will only disappear from Earth’s view.
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Robert Simmon

From Space to Story in Data Journalism

The launch of Ikonos was one of a handful of developments that allowed newsrooms to expand from reporting on rocket launches and satellite hardware, to using remote sensing data as an essential tool to help tell stories.
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Mackenzie Mercer

Visualizing Music Through Data: Are The Most Popular Ghost Songs Statistically More Metal?

Ghost, the Swedish satanic metal band that blew up during the summer of 2022 when their song “Mary On A Cross” went viral on TikTok, now has over 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify—rising from around 2 million before summer of 2021.
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Alejandra Arevalo

Alejandra Arevalo is a Peruvian multimedia journalist and engineer based in San Francisco. A self-taught coder, she currently works as a developer at Hearst Newspapers where she focuses on data visualization and interactive storytelling.