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Image of the double diamond model which shows the steps in tackling design projects. The leftmost point of the first diamond is "question, interest or idea." The designer then travels through the "expand/ideate" phase to reach the top of the first diamond, which is "max risk of overwhelm." Then, the designer travels down from that top point in the "focus/consolidate phase," which is the phase in which this column about collaboration is most relevant. The next phases (in the second diamond) are in light gray font, suggesting that those steps are yet to come, but they include "building/producing" and "deliver/deploying").S
Erica Gunn

Step 5 in the Data Exploration Journey: The Magic of Collaboration

A good collaborator offers companionship, a fresh perspective, and can help balance skillsets. Here's how to make a collaboration successful.
A visual of the information graphic showing 200 countries as flowers of different sizes, with size representing GDP. Each flower is placed roughly in the geographic location of the country on a flat world map. Each flower has six petals, each representing a metric of governance. Each petal has 10 concentric petals within it, representing years from 2012 to 2021. Each petal is color coded on a shaded scale of red (worse) to white (middle) to blue (better).V
Andrzej Leszkiewicz

Visualizing World Governance Data as a Flower Garden

How to create a floral-themed visualization with Power BI tools that captures how we govern our world.
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Soonk Paik

How I Created a Data Visualization With Zero Coding Skills, Thanks to ChatGPT

An exercise in building a data visualization with ChatGPT writing—and debugging!—the code.
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Alex Kolokolov

Recreating and Revising a Dashboard About Human Space Flight

A design exploration to improve a human space flight dashboard with a new layout and interactivity.
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Liubov Popovets

Visualizing the Dream Life of Russians During Wartime

When war with Ukraine ignited last year, a Russian journalist and sociology students turned dream recordings into data visualizations.
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Daleen Rabe

Honing Your Skills in Data Visualization as a Designer

Starting anything new can be daunting. This past year, I set out to improve my skills and confidence in data visualization. A topic that sounded..
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Silvia Romanelli

Fixing My Design Process from the Inside Out

Has this ever happened to you: you’ve just read one of those articles outlining the perfect design process: understanding your audience, defining an idea or..
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Erica Gunn

Step 4 in the Data Exploration Journey: Knowing When to Stop

This article is part V in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new...
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Letícia Pozza

A Camera That Prints the Futures We Envision – with a Bit of Help from an AI

One of the first things that made me fall in love with my husband was that in the early days of our nine-year relationship, he..
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Eli Holder

Unfair Comparisons: How Visualizing Social Inequality Can Make It Worse

Our new research shows how popular chart choices can trigger unconscious social biases and reinforce systemic racism. At first glance, the charts below seem harmless...
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Mrinal Ghosh

How to Locate and Understand the Reasons for Rising Land Surface Temperature

September 2022 has been one of the hottest Septembers in the last 143-years of global climate record, as per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..
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Joshua Pine

REVIEW: Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization by Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley

The multi-disciplinary nature of the data visualization profession presents opportunities for fruitful collaboration while also leading to points of tension. One such source of tension..
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Mark Palmer

How to Get Executives on Board with Data Visualization

Convincing senior executives to jump on the data visualization bandwagon isn’t as complicated as you think: here are five tips to get senior decision-makers on..
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Mara Pometti

Data Storytelling Is the Conduit for Modern Data Literacy

All the images in this article are taken from a keynote about humanizing AI that I delivered in June 2022 at the London Tech Week...
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Andriana Georgieva, Laura Meloni, Cesco Reale & Edgar Walthert

Say It in Icons! – The KomunIKON Project

My language limits are my world limits
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Nick Desbarats

Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)

tl;dr: After teaching many data professionals about bullet graphs and using them in many dashboards, I started to notice that they had a fair number..