The data visualization field is fascinating and I feel incredibly fortunate to be working in it, but, frankly, it’s also kind of a mess: It’s..
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Mary Aviles
REVIEW: Detroit in 50 Maps by Alex B. Hill
In professional and community circles, Detroit can sometimes feel like a small town. I started hearing about Alex B. Hill and his site, Detroitography, early..
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Milán Janosov
A Network Map of The Witcher
The Witcher, a fantasy novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, has inspired multiple computer games and was even launched on Netflix in 2019, with the latest..
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Rajesh Sigdel
Visualizing Hispaniola
With the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, the kidnapping of 17-foreign born missionaries, and a destructive earthquake which left thousands dead, Haiti is once again..
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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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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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Robert Simmon
Making Sense of Satellite Data, An Open Source Workflow: 2. Pre-processing Data with QGIS
There is more satellite data available now than ever before, but it still takes a little bit of work to convert the raw data into..
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Mary Aviles
REVIEW: Mapping Affinities by Dario Rodighiero
Influence has consequential implications. Consider Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger’s findings from his book, Contagious: “A word-of-mouth conversation by a new customer leads to an..
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Robert Simmon
Making Sense of Satellite Data, An Open Source Workflow: Accessing Data
We are living in a golden age of access to information about our home planet. Just twenty years ago, access to satellite data was limited..
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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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Mary Aviles
Indelible Impressions: Why You Won’t Forget the Map Room Project
In my quest to improve data fluency among those who think of themselves as non-data people, I am always on the lookout for physical manifestations..
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Andy Krackov
How Can Data Visualization Improve Local Conditions?
On a dedicated channel, #dvs-topics-in-data-viz, in the Data Visualization Society Slack, our members discuss questions and issues pertinent to the field of data visualization. Discussion..
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Paul Matos
Mapping Mexico City’s Indigenous People
“They aren’t statistics. They are human lives,” says Juan Luis Toledo Sanchez, member of the autonomous cooperative Cimarronez (or C.A.C.A.O., by its Spanish acronym), in..
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Jason Forrest
The Gilded Age Map That Shines a Light on America’s Past and Present
It’s hard not to be shocked by “Historical Geography,” a map by John F. Smith from 1888. By overlaying a strange “tree” shape with such..
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