Diving into Global Information Design, Part 2: Cosmology in the Large
Nine Themes for Frame Four Classification is an intellectual act, performed as often in the name of theology as in the name of science. The..
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Paul Kahn
Global Information Design, Part 1: A New Framework for Understanding Data Visualization
Patterns of Lines Information designers and dataviz practitioners today face a daily challenge: what technique, method, software, or code library to use for their next..
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Nigel Hawtin
Finding Inspiring Data Visualisations In Mid-century Nature Books
Creativity and inspiration can come from anywhere in life. For me over the past couple of weeks due to fracturing my right (drawing) arm, it..
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Ben Jones
Credit Where Credit is Due: Mary Eleanor Spear
Have you ever heard of Mary Eleanor Spear? I don’t recall seeing her name come up in discussions or presentations about the pioneers of this..
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Stephanie Evergreen
Beyond Nightingale: Being a Woman in Data Visualization
If you conduct a quick internet search on “history of data visualization,” you’ll nearly always see Florence Nightingale included in the annals of history. Why?..
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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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Senthil Natarajan
From the Battlefield to Basketball: A Data Visualization Journey with Florence Nightingale
In 1858, Florence Nightingale published a study on the conditions of army hospitals, her seminal Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the..
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Jason Forrest
The Gilded Age Map That Shines a Light on America’s Past and Present
It’s hard not to be shocked by “Historical Geography,” a map by John F. Smith from 1888. By overlaying a strange “tree” shape with such..
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Arnold Platon
Political Systems Charts: An Understudied Chart Form
Political systems charts are frequently seen online but there is scarce information on the genre and on how it evolved throughout the decades. This article will..
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RJ Andrews
Tear Up Your Baseline
A torn paper metaphor brings non-zero baselines to your reader’s attention. This intentional design flourish is inspired by one of data visualization’s pioneers who, 100..
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Jason Forrest
Data Journalism in the study of W.E.B. Du Bois’s “The Negro Problem” (Part 2)
One of the most powerful examples of data visualization was made 118 years ago by an all-black team led by W.E.B. Du Bois only 37..
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