Tag: Data Visualization

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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.
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Joanne Amarisa & Arran Ridley

Introducing Girls To Code, One Flower at a Time

The Data Garden Project started as a small group of creative learners. Now, it’s growing into a global community.
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Fernando Hannaka

Don’t Let Anxiety Get in the Way of Your Creative Process

Creating data visualization through trial and error can be nerve-racking. One project using unemployment data shows how the process pays off.
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Victor Muñoz

Lessons from Physicalizing Data for a Better World

Autumn foliage colors inspired me to chart global temperature change. Here's how I created a data visual with leaves.
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Annabelle Rincon

Curiosity Piques Interest, An Emotional Story Sustains It

How do you grab an audience's attention? How do you make them stay? Try an impactful visual that also carries a meaningful, emotional story.
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Nick Desbarats

Have I Resolved the Pie Chart Debate?

To use pie charts or not, that is the question! Here are a few arguments in favor of pie charts that have been missing from the debate.
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Thanisara GG Ruangdej

Nightingale meets the data viz community! Today, we hear from Thanisara GG Ruangdej of Punch Up.
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Monika Fratczak

Can Datavis Make Unpalatable Data More Enjoyable?

I studied emotional reactions to climate-related data visuals. Certain visuals evoked positive feelings—despite the unsettling topic.
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Nightingale Editors

Three Questions with… Poon Lee

Nightingale meets the data viz community! Today, we hear from information designer Poon Lee.
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Joseph Mackereth

Review: Drawing Data with Kids

The book "Drawing Data with Kids" makes data visualization accessible, low-tech, and something the whole family can do—no screens required.
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Will Stahl-Timmins & Nadieh Bremer

Showing Human Stories Behind Data Points

Will Stahl-Timmins was struggling to visualize groups of people in a humanizing way. Then he heard Nadieh Bremer's tips on data aggregation.
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Alex Kolokolov

When Charts Looks Like Spaghetti, Try These Saucy Solutions

Tangled heaps of lines and numbers are a recipe for disaster. Here's how to make a dashboard with more visually appetizing charts.
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Nightingale Editors

Dear Nightingale Submissions: Raveling Data

Check out submissions to the challenge to transform a piece of fabric into data viz by cutting, picking, or pulling it apart.
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Elsa Richard

A Crowdsourced Geodata Project Is Aiding Education Efforts in Tanzania 

A geodata project helped diagnose problems with education access in Tanzania, allowing education stakeholders to devise solutions to boost school attendance.
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Soha Elghany

Beyond Numbers: How Ethical Data Visualization Tells the Human Story

If you fail to show the human behind the data, you risk telling an incomplete and misleading tale, devoid of crucial information.
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Or Misgav

Finding Solace in Tracking My First Trimester Nights

Through sleepless nights and overwhelming fatigue, I used data and art to discover my strength—and the beauty of resilience.