Tag: graphicacy

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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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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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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..
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Phil Hawkins

Draw The Rest Of The Chart: Imposter Syndrome and Leveling Up in Data Visualization

Is It Ever Gonna Be Enough? A bright, energetic consultant stares intently at Microsoft PowerPoint. This hero, inexperienced but devoted, hears a door open nearby...
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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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Tricia Aung

Visualizing Data for Audiences in Low & Middle-Income Countries

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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Jason Forrest

Build A Trust Infrastructure Between Your Team and Your Audience

While everyone loves data, it can be perceived by many as something ‘technical’ (if not outright ‘scary’) and at the very least as something a..