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..
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Salomé Esteves
“I Can’t Draw” and Other Conversations I Always Have with My Dataviz Students
When you, like me, have been teaching for a while, you realize there’s a fundamental paradox: no two clusters of students are alike, yet all..
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Karthik Muthuswamy
SPOTLIGHT: Do You Feel What Others Feel?
Emotions around the globe - Illustration by Gunilla Hagström
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Jenn Schilling
Making a Data Collage for Dear Nightingale: Paper and NO Pencil
SNEAK PEEK: Nightingale Issue 2 is in design now! We’re so excited for you to see how your community has interpreted the theme of “Inspiration.”..
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Mark Palmer
Start with the Hero, Not the Story
To do a better job with data, take a moment to define your hero. Kat Greenbrook advises data analysts to start with the who, not..
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Krisztina Szucs
SPOTLIGHT: Animated Sports Results
This article is a summary of the animated data visualizations I’ve created for UEFA Euros 2020, Copa America, Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (fencing, swimming), 19th..
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Noëlle Rakotondravony
Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization: A Behind-the-Scene Q&A with the Authors
If you ever wondered how to make a visualization or a dashboard that’s beautiful and functional at the same time, then read on. I had..
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Aaron Siegel
Dreaming of Data
For as long as I can remember, I have struggled with getting a good night’s sleep. I have often gravitated towards staying up late at..
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Celia López
A Tale of Books and Bias
Books were one of our first methods of data storytelling-beyond speaking or paintings. Humans turned data into words, and now we have begun to turn..
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Milán Janosov
Game of Thrones — Network of the Dragon
One of my first data science projects was titled, Who Dies Next in the Game of Thrones?—a short article based on my data mining semester..
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