Jon Schwabish, co-author with Alice Feng of the “Do No Harm” guide, tells his children five things: Be honest Be kind Be respectful Be hard..
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Mary Aviles
Curiouser and Curiouser: Crafting Questions and Attending to the Answers
Adjacent skills—some of which are referred to as “soft” skills (such an inappropriately diminutive moniker)—can serve you both personally and professionally. My goal in this..
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Gulrez Khan
Drawing Data with Kids
For many of us, the pandemic has merged the two worlds of “home” and “office.” On the rare occasions that I used to work from..
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Amanda Makulec
Five Questions to Ask When Starting Out in Dataviz at a Consulting Firm
Within the Data Visualization Society we frequently talk about the growing availability of full-time data visualization opportunities, including working as a data visualization consultant. If..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Color Scheming from a Vintage Visualization
In this writing, I discuss how to build fresh color schemes from a vintage visualization. I use a bubble chart created in the 1890s as..
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Oscar So
“What are you going to write for your second?” – An interview with Kenneth Field
Recently, I had the chance to interview Kenneth Field about his newly published book, Thematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data. Kenneth is..
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Andy Krackov
Dashboards Are Not Data Stories
A few months ago, a longtime client asked if my data communication consultancy could build out a dashboard display for health collaboratives in California doing..
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Nick Desbarats
I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?
tl;dr: After having explained how to read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not workshop..
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Or Misgav
How I Survived Being a New Mum Using My Dataviz Goggles
I found out that I was pregnant with my first child in the middle of the first lockdown. I was sitting at my favourite spot..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Five Steps to a Diverging and Contrasting Color Scheme for Data Visualization
In this writing, I discuss the similarities between a Complementary Color Harmony and a Diverging Color Scheme for data visualization. The final results can look..
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Eva Sibinga & Erin Waldron
Cognitive Load as a Guide: 12 Spectrums to Improve Your Data Visualizations
The internet is brimming with tidy lists of data visualization best practices, and their definitive confidence can be quite comforting. But at the end of..
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Silvia Romanelli
Why Mental Models Matter in Data Visualization
My three year-old son once told me, “I know how computers work: when you press a button on the keyboard, it pulls a string inside..
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Alex Rich
How to Iterate on a CDC Health Advisory Graphic
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has had its hands full for the last year and a half. It’s an agency full of talented,..
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Nancy Organ
THE KIDS’ TABLE: Draw Along Dataviz
Welcome to Draw Along Dataviz!This article is part of The Kids’ Table section on kids dataviz. This section of Nightingale is filled with mini-lessons and..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Getting Physical with Perceptual Uniform Color Schemes: The Journey from HCL to CMYK and Pantone
In this writing, I discuss how to move your data visualization created with a Hue Chroma Luminance (HCL) color scheme to a physical or hard..
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Walter Paixão Côrtes
How I Used Data Visualization to Showcase My Career Trajectory
In our professional lives, every now and then we have opportunities to share our career trajectory with different audiences. For example, we may share with..
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