Tag: Design

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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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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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Sarah Steimer

Peter Grundy on Informative, Fun, and Elegant Design

Learn how Peter Grundy, 40-year information design veteran, educates his audience through cheery, simple illustrations.
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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..