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Leon Bueno

Brazil Deforests the Amazon by Areas Equivalent to the Size of 230 Manhattans Annually

The Amazon is important not just for Brazil, but also for the whole world. Here are four of the many reasons:1) PrecipitationThrough transpiration, the Amazon..
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Rajesh Sigdel

Using Infographics to Make Climate Change More Visible to the Public

Climate change may not be a directly observable phenomenon, but its impacts are currently threatening the lives of all living organisms. Although the majority of..
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Erica Gunn

Why Can’t We Have More Fun?

This is part 8 in a series of articles that illustrate how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous article reviewed chart choices..
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Jonathan Schwabish & Alice Feng

Six Ways to Bring Empathy into your Data

One of the big challenges in visualizing data, and quantitative research in general, is helping readers connect with the content. Connecting directly with people and..
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Julia Krolik

Data Visualization for Kids

It all started when my nine-year-old son brought home his grade four math homework. (We live in Canada and he attends a French immersion program..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Color in a Perceptual Uniform Way

This writing discusses the Hue-Chroma-Luminance (HCL) color space that is tailored to how we see colors as humans. In my previous writings on colorizing data..
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Mala Deep

Five Free Data Visualization Tools for Beginners

We have used data visualization in some way or other since time immemorial, from early cave paintings to today’s advanced information dashboards. The human eye..
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Matteo Moretti

Data Enabling: the Glocal Climate Change Design Process

What is the surgeon’s work? Saving lives or cutting/sewing bodies? Both. One answer refers to the what, the other answer to the how. In that vein, what is the..
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Lilach Manheim

The Most Important Role You’re Not Hiring for Your Data Team: The Information Architect

Ever since the Data Scientist was proclaimed the sexiest job of the 21st century, other predictions abound as to what might be the next must-have role..
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Walter Paixão Côrtes

How to Use Grafana for Data Visualization

Chances are, if your data visualization background comes from outside of IT, you have never heard anything about Grafana. Grafana has primarily been used for..
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Erica Gunn

Dashboard Redesign: A Look at Chart Choices

This article is part of a series that illustrates how basic design principles can improve information display. In the last installment, we thought through the purpose..
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Simone Betito

Explorer les Plugins Graphiques avec Figma

Pour voir la version anglaise, click here. J’ai utilisé de nombreux outils dans ma carrière dans la visualisation de données. J’ai commencé principalement avec le logiciel..
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Simone Betito

Exploring Chart Plugins in Figma

View this article en français ici. I’ve used a lot of tools in my data visualization career. I started my career mainly using Tableau. In grad school,..
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Dee Williams & Rahul Bhargava

How and Why We Sketch When Visualizing Data

If you’re like us, at some point in your early education you decided you couldn’t draw. Your doodles, like ours, didn’t look like you wanted..
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Erica Gunn

Dashboard Redesign: Understanding Purpose

This article is part of a series that illustrates how basic design principles can improve information display. The previous installments focused on understanding the audience and..
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Andy Krackov & Sarah Marikos

Asterisk Nation: One Tribe’s Challenge to Find Data About its Population

The Yurok Tribe in far northern California needs to address a condition plaguing numerous rural communities in the United States: addiction and substance misuse. Across..