Tag: Data Visualization

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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.
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Christopher Laubenthal

Internal Design: Success Requires Form and Function

My journey with EdWise and the Career Explorer Tools taught me about generating change using innovative data visualization within an organization.
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Kayla Marie

A Visual Compliment: Charting Kindness in Data

This story details and visualizes the time Kayla Marie set out to track how many compliments she gave in a week, but came away with having received almost as many as she gave.
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David Skopec

Data Design in Focus: Students Review Diverse Installations at Venice Biennale 2023

During a visit to the Venice Biennale in November 2023, a series of reviews of selected installations and presentations were created by students from the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).
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David Skopec

Information Design in the Margins

Since its inception in 1980, the Venice Architecture Biennale, one of the most prestigious international architecture events, has attracted global architects and design aficionados.
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Paul Kahn

Review: Modern Man in the Making & Joy and Fear

"Joy and Fear" is an illustrated report that continues the exploration begun in Otto Neurath's 1939 book "Modern Man in the Making." It examines how modernity's promises and failures impact humanity, highlighting the uneven distribution of modern benefits across the globe.
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Nightingale Editors

Five Projects: Highlighting the Work of Elisava’s Master in Data Design

The following five projects were completed by individuals and groups of student who have passed through the Elisava Masters in Data Design at the Barcelona School of Design.
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Natasha Godwin

Review and Re-Design: 344 Questions

Stefan G. Bucher's 344 Questions is one of the best books I’ve never finished. It's a list of questions from dozens of creative professionals, organized in a series of vibrant flow charts, that help you define and solve problems in work and life. In that one-sentence description alone, it's already doing more than most therapists, coaches, and generative applications. Let's unpack why.
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Emilia Ruzicka

Review: “Our Environment” by the Data Science x Design Collective

Our Environment, the newest installment in the Data Science x Design Collective’s series of anthologies, is a delightful collection of essays, zines, fictional short stories, and reflections on the data-fied world around and inside each of us.
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Neil Richards

Book Review – “The Data Storyteller’s Handbook”

Learn more about Kat Greenbrook's latest book while diving into her process behind its creation.
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Tyler Freeman

Streaming Media Year-in-Review

In this article, I share my journey of using the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) to wrestle my media data from the clutches of streaming services. We'll explore the importance of data ownership, navigate the (sometimes absurd) hurdles, and create a personalized, cross-platform media retrospective.
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Martynas Jočys

What to Consider When Considering the Audience

"Considering the audience" is one of the most important pieces of advice in storytelling and data visualization, but is can be a vague suggestion. This article turns this suggestion into a checklist you can go through to ensure your audience is considered.
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Maxene Graze

Developing Annual Surveys for Data Visualization Style Guides

Maintaining a viz style guide is crucial for consistent styling and speeding up the work flow. Here's how to measure style guide efficacy.