Tag: Design

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Catherine Ramsdell

Racing Bar Charts: An Experiment in Interactive Storytelling

This fall I challenged students in a 200-level writing class to tell a story using a racing bar chart. It was an interesting experiment, and..
A map of the continental United States colored in shades of red with several dark blue dots where cities exist.H
Christopher Laubenthal

How to Share Memorable Data

Integrating data visualization into non-profit work is both a strategic advantage and an easy pitfall.The core of non-profit work, for me, is communication. Listening to..
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Good Morning Data #7 | False Positives: The Imposter Syndrome in Dataviz

False Positives: The Imposter Syndrome in Dataviz or “Is imposter syndrome even curable?“It’s the moment I hate the most. The moment someone else introduces me,..
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Good Morning Data #6 | The X,Y Files

The X,Y Files or “How do you communicate with extradatastrial clients?“The encounter took place in the last hours of the evening. Nothing could have prepared..
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Shafeeq Rahaman & Mahe Jabeen Abdul

The Power of Context: Making Data Stories Come Alive

Raw data can appear sterile without the human touch of thoughtful interpretation. Though information-packed charts and graphs showcase vital statistics, the “why should I care”..
Data visualization in the shape of a vinyl about Taylor SwiftT
Kelsey Nanan

The Tortured Data Viz Department: An Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Lyrics

In April of 2024, Taylor Swift released her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD), which she wrote over the past two years, during her..
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Jennifer Frazier

Beyond Storytelling With Data: Guidelines for Designing Exploratory Visualizations

Visualizations are essential for telling the stories of science. Through visualized data we can be transported to far off nebulas or trace our genetic connections..
Digital collage illustration featuring a Renaissance-style portrait of a woman, juxtaposed with modern graphical elements. She holds a window alert box that says 'MISSING DATA' with an 'OK' button. The background is bright yellow with blue grid patterns. Bold text reads '#3 Good morning data' and 'The c(h)art before the horse.' The design promotes 'A new column by Datacitron in Nightingale!'G
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Good Morning Data #3 | The C(h)art Before the Horse

I guess we all need to start somewhere, usually from a familiar spot, and mine is obviously design. I find it not always easy to embrace but I try to see it as a valid starting point, as long as I don’t forget the rest
A series of eight colorful, stacked bar charts arranged in two rows, each chart representing different groups within a hierarchy labeled as "g.RMY," "g.RMO," "g.RWY," "g.RWO," "g.DMY," "g.DMO," "g.DWY," and "g.DWO." Each graph plots the distribution of support levels (x-axis, ranging from 0.0 to 1.0) for various items or policies labeled from Q12_A to Q12_P, depicted in multiple colors from blue at the top to green at the bottom. The y-axis represents the inverse logit of confidence interval, varying across charts from 50 to 250. These visualizations are intended to show the confidence in support levels for each item across different demographic or focus groups, with each bar representing the level of support for a specific policy or opinion.P
Bahareh Zahirodini & Moinak Bhaduri

Pyramids of Priorities and a Poisoned Omen: Differing Hierarchies of Desired Business Ethics

Explore how demographic differences shape business ethics perceptions and priorities, using statistical data to highlight variations.
A bubble chart titled "Measuring Impact One Project at a Time," created by CannonDesign. The chart visualizes various projects and their labor hours across different departments, including Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Customer Service, Operations, Product Development, Administration, Research & Development, and Legal & Compliance. Each bubble represents a project, with the size of the bubble indicating the amount of labor hours dedicated to that project. The projects are listed on the left side, and the departments are listed at the top. The chart uses different colors to represent each department, making it easier to distinguish between them.O
Melissa Alexander

On Business and Beauty in Data Visualization

In the business of consulting, our clients rely heavily on data visualization to make sense of complex information and drive decision-making. If you’ve ever interacted with the c-suite of a large institution, you know that capturing their attention and conveying insights effectively can be a daunting task.
The infographic displays Singapore’s low and stable 2-year recidivism rates with a line chart for 2006-2020, alongside a large iceberg illustration representing the hidden complexities of successful reintegration into society. It includes text sections on perseverance and external support, emphasizing the unseen challenges of reintegrating former offenders.T
Kaushik Kompella

Tips & Tricks to Improve your Dashboard Design

Learn how to use data context, visual flow, color, typography, and appeal to create engaging data visualizations for business users.
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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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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 three-part digital illustration where the flag of Japan slowly morphs into a bar chart.F
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.
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.