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Isobel Parkes

From Pixels to Parks: The Intersection of Data Visualisation and Urban Greening

Italian designer, Bruno Munari, famously argued that “Art shall not be separated from life: things that are good to look at, and bad to be..

Jason Forrest

LA on the Move: Data Vandals Bring Wildlife and Humans Together at Union Station

The relationship between nature and the city is often framed as a tension - wilderness versus concrete, animals versus humans. But what if we looked at Los Angeles differently? What if we saw the city as a shared habitat where humans and wildlife navigate the same streets, highways, and neighborhoods together?

Ruishan Wu, Zezhong Wang, Haidan Liu, Krithika Balasubramanyam, Kanak Gautam, Aham Gupta, Shannon McAllister & Sheelagh Carpendale

Exploring Data Detective Practices as a Class Activity

We reflect on our experiences arising from a recent computer science graduate class about data feminism, during which we explored the idea of being data..

Sachi Mahajan

Breaking Stereotypes in Women’s Football

It was 2015, a year that has been etched into my memory. Barcelona had just conquered football, sweeping La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and..

Nina Koch

Datavis as a Community Experience: How to (Not) Create a Datavis in a Group

Do you know individuals who seem to focus on one thing for their whole life? I’m on the opposite side of the scale. Inspired by..

Alyxander Burns

Learning to Read Academic Papers by Making Data Comics

Learning to read academic papers is a considerable challenge for many college students. Take, for instance, the task of reading a research paper for an..

Nina Errey

Why audience age matters: The Influence of Audience Age on Engagement with Interactive Narrative Visualization

Interactive data-driven stories are an increasingly common way to communicate complex information—climate change, election outcomes, etc. Often, however, they are built for a broad audience...

Elena Tratsevskaya

Plastic Portrait: Visualizing Technical Skills Through Cable Ties

I’ve always been interested in the aesthetic side of dashboards beyond what the tools offer—importing custom backgrounds and graphic elements created outside of BI software.The..

Bahareh Zahirodini & Moinak Bhaduri

Winds of Change and How They Sway Fatalist Fractalists

We don’t know whether you have noticed, but there are many phrases we casually let loose that cry out for visualisation. Or, at least, an..

Andrew Gelman & Susan Kruglinski

Statistical Graphics and Comics: Parallel Histories of Visual Storytelling

What do data visualization and comics have in common? One of these is used to communicate in science and journalism, and the other appears in..

Or Misgav

A Garden of Sleep: Tracking the Emotional Distance Between Two Bedtimes

For the past six months, my husband and I haven’t gone to sleep at the same time.We both work full-time and raise two young children,..

Sachi Mahajan

Decoding the Influence of Visual Data in Consumer Decisions

Do you ever wonder why your eyes dart to a flashy “50% OFF” sticker? or an appetite-stimulating visual of potato chips on a pack in..

DVS Editor

What Can Business Dashboard Designers Learn from the Information Is Beautiful Awards?

Why do I still love the field of data visualisation after 20 years? It’s the levers that exist between form and function, beauty and insight,..

Kenneth Odoh

Scrollytelling with Closeread: The Super Low-Code Way to Bring Your Data Project to the Web!

Introduction What is Scrollytelling?Scrollytelling is a dynamic, interactive storytelling technique often used in web-based formats, that reveals insights, visuals, and narrative elements as the user..

Shirley Wu

Senses & Sentiment: When data is too emotional for the screen

After doing data visualization work for eleven years, in 2021 I decided to go back to school to gain the skills and tools for creating..

Emma Rubin

The Endless Stories in Baby Name Data

Throughout my time as a student I was used to being known with a last initial. My first name Emma has consistently ranked in the..

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