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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..

Natalia Kiseleva

Paperbase: A Window into Photographic Paper History

The Lens Media Lab at Yale University’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage has created Paperbase, an interactive platform for exploring the world’s largest..

Alex Solokov

Beyond the Binary: Improving Data Visualization for Intersectional Identities

Personal and group identity are foundational to the human experience, shaping our values, relationships, and self-perceptions. These identities intersect across categories like gender, race, ethnicity,..

Gulrez Khan

From Moonsighting to Ramadan Data Journaling

As I was heading out to the mosque for the evening prayer, I heard a soft voice from the kitchen—”Abbu, wait! I’ll join you.”It was..

Stephen Osserman

Building Community With Data and Visualization

Stumbling into a small peer support communityI arrived at Outlier 2021 eager to learn and explore. I was a few years into my transition from..

Zehra Unal

Healing Through Data Visualization

This project shows data visualization I used to reflect on my healing process and find closure after a traumatic event. I recorded the literal number..

Selma-Rachel Swire

Charting Progress: Mapping Women’s Advancement in Entrepreneurship and Financial Inclusion

In 1985–the year I was born–there were only two women holding the role of CEO at Fortune 500 companies. To date, 52 women now hold..

Shanfan Huang

The XYZ of Work-Related Stress

How various stress factors show up in different generationsAccording to the 2024 State of the Global Workplace report by Gallup, people’s mental well-being has deteriorated..

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