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
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