Some days it feels like my first words were, “I hate math.” There’s a stereotype that creative ‘right-brainers’ can’t do math, and as a writer..
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Rachel Costa
Data + Women Quarterly: Finding Your Path in the Data & Tech Industry
Hello everyone! I’m Rachel, one of the co-organisers of the Data + Women network. Nice to meet you! For those who have never heard of..
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Milán Janosov
50 Years of Oscars: Acting Success and Collaboration
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, have been one of the most prestigious awards in the film industry for nearly a century, acknowledging..
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Tyler Freeman
Does Twitter’s Algorithm Hate Your Friends?
I love Twitter. Well, I love my community on Twitter. I love learning about new art, new events, scientific discoveries, and social movements new and..
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Michael Friendly
Colorless Green Graphs Sleep Furiously: A Conversation with Leland Wilkinson
This article traces some history of ideas behind Leland Wilkinson’s development of the Grammar of Graphics (and later, of ggplot2) in the form of a..
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Erica Gunn
Step 1 in the Data Exploration Journey: Getting Oriented
This article is part II in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new...
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Alexandra Khoo
Blog This: Transforming How Students Engage and Learn from Visualization Research
What started out as an experiment by Professor Niklas Elmqvist to make student work more meaningful gave rise to VisUMD. It’s a Medium blog that..
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Yuliia Nikitina
How to Create a Pivot Marimekko Chart in Plain JavaScript
You have probably already seen many different articles on bar and pie charts. It’s enough to suggest that they are the only chart options available..
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Milán Janosov
Is There a Happy Ending for the Peaky Blinders?
Peaky Blinders is an award-winning historical drama series produced by BBC Studios. The show is set between the two world wars and is centered around..
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Mary Aviles
REVIEW: Mindworks – The Science of Thinking
Researchers and analysts are always seeking new ways to engage people, to help their insights feel meaningful to their audiences. Action is rarely generated from..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Very Peri Pantone 2022 Divergence for Data Visualization
There are situations in data visualization where your client asks you to build a color scheme around a specific color and also contrast data values..
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Jonathan Schwabish & Claire McKay Bowen
Data4Kids: A Collaborative Project to Teach Kids about Data
When the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down in-person learning, we knew education wouldn’t be the same. How could kids—especially younger kids in elementary and middle..
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William Careri
Designing for Neurodivergent Audiences
When a group of autistic individuals coined the term neurodiversity in an attempt to redefine their identity, few would accurately predict the impact it would..
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Charles Miglietti
Effective Data Visualizations Should Focus on Narrative, Not Numbers
Data visualization is an incredibly powerful tool — but too often, it’s underutilized or simply misused by brands and other organizations. That’s not just because people..
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Mollie Pettit
Creating an Inclusive Global Dataviz Conference
It’s amazing to me to think that Amy, Elijah, and I launched The Data Visualization Society just three years ago. I am now about to..
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Neil Richards
REVIEW: How Can We Use Comics to Tell Data Stories?
This post is a review of From Data to Stories, a book from Richie Lionell and Ramya Mylavarapu of Gramener, described on its front page..
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