Tag: Design

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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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Jason Forrest

How I Became Myself Again: What Writing Did for My Self-Worth in 2019

I love year-end lists not only to learn about the best movies, books, articles, and events of the previous year but also because I really..
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Jason Forrest

The Greatest Library You’ve Never Heard Of: ‘The Visual Telling Of Stories’

Dr. Chris Mullen’s drive to collect and share information has created a fascinating archive with a focus on Fortunes Magazine and the history of visual..
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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..
“Who are you here to see?” An illustration of an exhibition of Mona’s work that showcases visualizations of the extent of inequality in art spaces.P
Noëlle Rakotondravony

Power to the Powerless: An Interview With Mona Chalabi

Mona Chalabi is a data journalist and data editor at The Guardian US, where she publishes columns about data visualization that relate to the news. Prior to that, she..
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Michael Yi

How to Choose Colors for Your Data Visualizations

Color is a major factor in creating effective charts. A good set of colors will highlight the story you want the data to tell, while..
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Andy Kirk

What Makes A Data Visualisation Elegant?

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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Alexandra Khoo

Why We Find Joy and Value in Creating Data Visualizations

I don’t know about you, but when something piques my interest — TV tropes, color theory, the life-changing magic of tidying up, anything — I..
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Jason Forrest

The Process of Familiarity: An Interview with Nicholas Rougeux

I remember the first time I stumbled across the work of Nicholas Rougeux — it was his painstaking recreation of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours — and I..
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Amy Cesal

What Are Data Visualization Style Guidelines?

Organizations like Google and London City Intelligence have extended their design systems to include standards specifically for data visualization. This speaks to the growing importance of using data and..
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Jason Forrest

Data Visualization in the Age of Communism

The Soviet Union used data to inspire, terrify, and persuade the proletariat The story of the Soviet Union is indelibly wedded to its propaganda. Visually stunning..
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Erica Gunn

Dataviz as Guide Dog

As a data vis designer living in both the art and data worlds, I sometimes hear that I should “just go wild” or “let my..