If you’re like us, at some point in your early education you decided you couldn’t draw. Your doodles, like ours, didn’t look like you wanted..
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Cory Cone
Finding a Through Line, or My Creative Process Is a Mess, So Is Life, and That’s Okay (Probably)
On December 10th, 2020, I presented my Master’s thesis over Zoom to a panel of guests and other members of my cohort in the Data..
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datacitron
I Had a Chat with Alberto Cairo before Giving a Talk, Here’s What He Told Me
5 tips from an experienced speaker A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure to have a friendly, little call with Alberto Cairo as part of..
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Javier Sanchez Gutierrez
Data Visualization in Parasite
A few months after becoming the first Korean film awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, the president of the jury, Alejandro G. Iñarritu,..
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Erica Gunn
Who Is Your Chart For?
This is the fourth in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article focused on cleaning up the..
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Amy Cesal
How to Create Brand Colors for Data Visualization Style Guidelines
The most common push back I hear about creating a unique style guide for data visualization, is “We have a style guide for the brand,..
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Tiffany France
Choosing Fonts for Your Data Visualization
The purpose of data visualization is to provide a layout that relays lots of information quickly. Good visualizations help the user understand complicated data without..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Simply Scattered: Enhancing Color With Geometry in a Visualization
In my previous “Colorizing a Visualization” writing, I covered the analogous and complementary color harmonies. Today, I will discuss a hybrid of the two harmonies..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
From Camera Roll to Color Harmony: Greening a Visualization
A smart phone with a camera allows us to easily capture images of colors and the world around us. With an app like Adobe Capture, it..
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Federica Fragapane
Can Data Visualization Help Us Talk to Children About Earth?
Writing with visual alphabets As a data visualization designer, I think about the pieces I’m working on as the visual equivalent of articles or stories...
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
The Blues of Color Harmony
As noted previously in “Colorizing a Visualization,” Color Harmony is the process of choosing colors on a Color Wheel that work well together in the composition of..
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Alexandra Khoo
Four Big Dataviz Myths, Busted
On a dedicated channel, #dvs-topics-in-data-viz, in the Data Visualization Society Slack, our members discuss questions and issues pertinent to the field of data visualization. Discussion..
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Erica Gunn
How to Use Whitespace, the Punctuation Between Visual Elements
This is the first in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The next installment will apply some..
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Erica Gunn
Designing for Charts
This is the third in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. Previous articles focused on whitespace and..
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Alexandra Khoo
Sweet Love: Popular Wedding Songs Reimagined As Cupcakes
These days, it seems, you can’t attend a wedding without hearing the soft croon of Ed Sheeran at some point. It got me thinking, is..
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Johannes Wirges
What Board Games Teach Us About Data Visualization
Recently I visited the biggest trade fair for board games in the world. The Internationale Spieltage (Spiel) takes place annually in my current hometown of Essen in..
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