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Will Chase

Constructing a Career in Data Visualization: The How

In my first essay, I touted my status as a “self-taught” designer and developer — this was a lie. Or rather, a mischaracterization, for almost no..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Simply Scattered: Enhancing Color With Geometry in a Visualization

In my previous “Colorizing a Visualization” writing, I covered the analogous and complementary color harmonies. Today, I will discuss a hybrid of the two harmonies..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

From Camera Roll to Color Harmony: Greening a Visualization

A smart phone with a camera allows us to easily capture images of colors and the world around us. With an app like Adobe Capture, it..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Color Brewing the Perfect Storm

Today, I describe my previous 2008 efforts to colorize a Perfect Storm data simulation while I was at the Renaissance Computing Institute at North Carolina State University...
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Federica Fragapane

Can Data Visualization Help Us Talk to Children About Earth?

Writing with visual alphabets As a data visualization designer, I think about the pieces I’m working on as the visual equivalent of articles or stories...
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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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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Colorizing a Visualization

The flow chart above diagrams the process of colorizing a visualization using blank templates from the Interaction of Color app, an invaluable tool both for learning about..
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Will Chase

Constructing a Career in Dataviz: Getting Started

In 1984, when my parents were searching for their first home together, my dad decided the best solution — given their limited budget — was..
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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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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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Amanda Makulec

Pros and Cons of Chart Taxonomies

Chart taxonomies are a popular starting place for people new to data visualization, but do they unnecessarily constrain our thinking and ignore the fundamentals of..
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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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Dan Gastineau

How to Use Storytelling Conventions to Create Better Visualizations

Story is the best form of communication we have. To the steely-eyed analyst, it may seem superfluous and manipulative — a way to persuade with..
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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..