Tag: Education

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Christen Spehr

Five Ways to Teach Math as an Art Form

Some days it feels like my first words were, “I hate math.” There’s a stereotype that creative ‘right-brainers’ can’t do math, and as a writer..
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Catherine Ramsdell

Data Literacy and General Education: A Potentially Perfect Partnership

In 2012, Harvard Business Review declared data scientist the sexiest job in the world. No one ever has declared general education the sexiest anything in..
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DVS Editor

DVS NEWS: Erica Gunn joins the DVS board as Education Director

We’re excited to announce that Erica will be stepping in for Nathalie Vladis for the term through the end of this year. Erica will lead..
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Jonathan Dunne

Endless River: An Overview of Dataviz for Categorical Data

Let us explore some flow and network chart types that are ready-made for visual storytelling using categorical data  As a data scientist, I am surrounded..
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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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Alexandre Morin-Chassé

The Stellar Chart: An Elegant Alternative to Radar Charts

Radar charts, also called web charts, spider charts or star charts, are often used to display various characteristics of a profile simultaneously. Whether it presents..
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Silvia Romanelli

Why Should Non-Profits Add Data Visualisation to their Communication Toolkit?

After the corporate sector and journalism, non-profit organisations are slowly starting to put their data to use and visualise it—for example, using numbers, maps, and..
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Jason Forrest

War and Human Nature

Revisiting a 1946 pamphlet (and the role of pamphlets in educating adults) that helps explain the Jan. 6th insurrection