You may have heard, “data visualisation should tell a story” – but this is not always true. Data visuals are created for many reasons: from..
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Adam Korengold
Insights Of Their Own: Visualizing Women’s Baseball
Viz by the author.
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Joseph Ricafort
Creating Personas to Identify Yourself in the Community and Data
In this post, I am going to walk you through the process of creating the Data Visualization Society State of the Industry Survey 2021 Challenge..
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Nikita Rokotyan
How to Visualize a Graph with a Million Nodes
Large-scale graph visualizations are tricky. The more nodes and edges you have in your network, the more difficult it is to compute the layout for..
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Jenn Schilling
A Design Process for Dataviz
Design is a plan to create something that will be beneficial to people. Design involves considering both the form and the function of the final..
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Erica Gunn
Step 3 in the Data Exploration Journey: Productive Tangents
This article is part IV in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new...
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Mary Aviles & Jason Forrest
Information Empowerment: A Reciprocal Data Literacy Case Study, Part 3
This is part three of a six-part series dedicated to sharing cross-functional ideas for design thinkers, data practitioners, business intelligence analysts, researchers, policymakers, and subject..
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Amanda Makulec
Starting Out in Data Visualization Today
My career path in data visualization might best be described as meandering. I started as a public health analyst, writing reports and web content for..
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Tom Randle
What a Book Published in the 80s Taught Me about Data Visualization
I was on holiday recently in the Welsh border town of Hay on Wye, when I came across a book that instantly caught my attention...
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Martina Dossi
A Matter of Time: Linking Job Titles to Data Visualization Tasks
Is there any difference in the amount of time we allocate to the different phases of a data visualization project, depending on our professional role?..
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Ama Nyame-Mensah
Beyond the Bar: Alternative Methods for Visualizing Two Points of Change
People love comparisons, whether between two groups or the difference in an outcome between two time points. Many data (visualization) designers use a clustered bar..
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Nick Desbarats
Are Vertical Line Charts Ever a Good Idea?
I recently asked dataviz Twitter if anyone could point to situations in which a vertical line chart was the best chart type for that situation...
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Nightingale Editors
How to Write for Nightingale
Everything you ever wanted to know about how to publish with us! In addition to helping writers level up their skills, these guidelines help our..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Watching for Peas and Carrots: Solving the Green and Orange Dilemma in Data Visualization
In this writing, I discuss the challenge of working with a green and orange color scheme in data visualization. Unfortunately, 99 percent of people with..
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John Polk
Get behind Me, Titivillus! How to Avoid Mistakes in Your Work
Meet Titivillus. His LinkedIn profile describes him as a demon who works for Satan to introduce errors into the works of scribes. Imagine if you..
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Eli Holder
Timely Advice – How Long Does Dataviz Take?
Visualizing 3iap timesheets for 10 dataviz client projects. How much time goes into researching, data-wrangling, designing, and building different types of data visualizations? Every client..
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