Tag: How To

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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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Amy Cesal

Highlights from the DVS Accessibility Fireside Chat

On July 28, 2021, the Data Visualization Society hosted a Fireside Chat to discuss accessibility in data visualization. I moderated a panel of community members..
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Francis Gagnon

Como fazer para que as suas propostas de design sejam aprovadas pelo cliente

Read this article in English here or en français ici.Translation by Vivan Andreozzi É fácil apontar o dedo para os clientes quando falhamos como designers. Preferimos pensar..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Creating a Perceptual Uniform Color Scheme By Combining I Want Hue And Viz Palette

In this writing, I discuss how to use the “i want hue” web app with Viz Palette  to create perceptually uniform color schemes for data..
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Francis Gagnon

How To Get Your Design Ideas Through a Client

Read this article en français ici or em portugues aqui. Clients are an easy target to blame for our failings as designers. We like to think..
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Francis Gagnon

Comment faire accepter vos designs à vos clients?

Read this article in English here or em portugues aqui. Les clients sont un bouc émissaire facile pour nos échecs en tant que designers. Nous..
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Erica Gunn

The Why, the What, and the How in Dataviz

This is part nine in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article took a deep..
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Walter Paixão Côrtes

How to in Grafana - Part 2: Creating Interactive Dashboards

This is the second article in a series about Grafana. Part 1 was an intro, demonstrating how to create a simple static dashboard using Grafana,..