Tag: Design

Information Empowerment - part 1I
Mary Aviles & Jason Forrest

Information Empowerment is a Universal Theory for Data Design, Part 1

Part one of a six-part series on the application of design thinking for data practitioners, business intelligence analysts, researchers, and anyone working with data.Jason comes..
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: Mapping Affinities by Dario Rodighiero

Influence has consequential implications. Consider Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger’s findings from his book, Contagious:  “A word-of-mouth conversation by a new customer leads to an..
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Neil Richards

Designing a Data Visualization Logo

Viz For Social Good began as a passion project (like many a great endeavour) from our founder Chloe Tseng in 2016. She felt that whereas..
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Emilia Ruzicka

You’ve Got Mail: Part 5 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fifth installment of a year-long data visualization journey. If you want to read the fourth part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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Erica Gunn

The Why, the What, and the How in Dataviz

This is part nine in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article took a deep..
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Emilia Ruzicka

Are You Not Entertained?: Part 4 of a Year-Long Personal Data Project

This is the fourth installment of a yearlong data visualization journey. If you want to read the third part before jumping in, here’s the article..
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Ali Tehrani

SPOTLIGHT: How Racially Diverse Are The Oscars, Really?

This article spotlights Ali Tehrani’s design process. This visualization was featured as Tableau’s Viz of the Day on April 26, 2021.Earlier this year, I came..
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Hilje de Boer

The Lie Factor and the Baseline Paradox

Within the history of data visualisation, there have been written numerous books with rules on how to properly visualise data. When I started off in..
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Rajesh Sigdel

Using Infographics to Make Climate Change More Visible to the Public

Climate change may not be a directly observable phenomenon, but its impacts are currently threatening the lives of all living organisms. Although the majority of..
Comparison between a standard stacked bar and the radial chartW
Erica Gunn

Why Can’t We Have More Fun?

This is part 8 in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article reviewed chart choices..
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Heather Jones

The Circle of Life in All Its Bizarre and Cruel Glory

I designed this spread when I worked in graphics at Time Magazine in May 2013. That year Brood II was emerging and I was totally fascinated by..
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Lilach Manheim

The Most Important Role You’re Not Hiring for Your Data Team: The Information Architect

Ever since the Data Scientist was proclaimed the sexiest job of the 21st century, other predictions abound as to what might be the next must-have role..
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Benjamin Xiao

Balancing the Tension Between Creative Tradeoffs and Client Expectations

Recently, I had the opportunity to moderate a discussion among Data Visualization Society members about injecting creativity into client-based work. I have always admired those..
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Dee Williams & Rahul Bhargava

How and Why We Sketch When Visualizing Data

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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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..