Tag: Review

The front cover of Maarten Boers’s Data Visualization for Biomedical Scientists: Creating Tables and Graphs That Work, featuring a data visualization entitled “First wave covid-19” by Gert Jan Kocken which abstractly portrays data from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.R
Emilia Ruzicka

Review: Data Visualization for Biomedical Scientists by Maarten Boers

Author Maarten Boers teaches how to improve visualizations with before-and-after examples, and suggests a better way to show error on charts.
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Dario Rodighiero & University of Groningen Students

Exploring the Data Visualization Landscape: S-H-O-W 2023 Conference Highlights

The S-H-O-W conference instilled a vision for growth and impact of data visualization. Here are some key takeaways from student attendees.
A photo of the Outlier presentation stage in Porto, with a projector screen three chairs, a podium and an physical "Outlier" letter blocks set on the floor.O
Nightingale Editors

Outlier 2023: Changing the World, One Chart at a Time

DVS's 2023 Outlier Conference was held in Porto, Portugal, and virtually in early May. Here's what a few attendees say about the experience.
Book Cover: "Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability" by Steve Krug.R
Romana Popocovski

Review: Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited

Written for designers, the book breaks down the key principles of intuitive navigation and information design for web and mobile applications.
A colorful book sits on a blue table next to a small plant. The book’s cover shows a visualization made of many different colors of paper showing distribution curves. About a third of the way down the cover is the title “Making with Data Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World.”R
Jenn Schilling

Review: Making With Data, a Fascinating Dive Into The World of Physical Data Design

The book explores the world of tactile and hand-made data exhibits. It showcases inspiring physicalization projects and offers tips and tools to try your own.
The Building Science Graphics book on a dark brown wood table. The book has a cover that is two-thirds blue and one-third white. On the white section of the cover, a series of overlapping half circles in yellow, pink, and blue are shown in varying degrees of rotation in a vertical arrangement.R
Jenn Schilling

Review: Building Science Graphics Is Not Just For Science Illustrators

This densely packed book is a must-have resource for science graphics designers. But it's also a great read for anyone working in infographics and visualizations.
Two young boys wearing white lab coats, gloves, and safety goggles working with scientific equipment that is part of a museum exhibitR
Jenn Schilling

REVIEW: Visit a Local Museum for Dataviz Inspiration

In early September, I had a super fun time at a Meetup with the Denver Data Storytellers at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science! The..
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Joshua Pine

REVIEW: Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization by Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley

The multi-disciplinary nature of the data visualization profession presents opportunities for fruitful collaboration while also leading to points of tension. One such source of tension..
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Ripley Cleghorn

Behind the Scenes of “The Future of Data Science”: An Interview with Ciera Martinez

A few months ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ciera Martinez to discuss the founding of the project, Data Science by Design,..
Bridget and Vidya holding their book “Functional Aesthetics or data visualizationF
Noëlle Rakotondravony

Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization: A Behind-the-Scene Q&A with the Authors

If you ever wondered how to make a visualization or a dashboard that’s beautiful and functional at the same time, then read on. I had..
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Joshua Pine

REVIEW: Cole Knaflic’s Storytelling with You: Plan, Create and Deliver a Stellar Presentation

We have all been on the receiving end of bad presentations. Slide decks with too much text, cluttered data visualizations and presenters who read from..
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William Careri

REVIEW: Be Data Driven by Jordan Morrow

Following up on his first book, which considered data from the individual level, Jordan Morrow’s Be Data Driven looks at harnessing the power of data..
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Joshua Pine

REVIEW: Dan Bouk’ Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

The practice of data storytelling often focuses on weaving a narrative by highlighting themes from a dataset. Author Dan Bouk flips this conventional practice on..
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Jason Forrest, Jill A. Brown, Nate Coursey, Tristan Guillevin, Jeff Harrison & Eli Holder

“In the end, all data visualization ends up with a conversation” — A Joint Review of Eyeo 2022

The Eyeo festival has always held an interesting place in the community as, I’m told, it never really focused on any specific subject matter. At..
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Tom Randle

What a Book Published in the 80s Taught Me about Data Visualization

I was on holiday recently in the Welsh border town of Hay on Wye, when I came across a book that instantly caught my attention...
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Neil Richards

REVIEW: Dr. Selena Fisk’s I’m Not a Numbers Person

When I came across I’m not a numbers person and learned about Dr. Selena Fisk, I knew that I would be interested in reading the..