Tag: Review

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Julia Schaeman

REVIEW: Diaries of the Evergreen Data Academy

I first heard of Stephanie Evergreen in 2012 when I finished my graduate studies and moved to Atlanta, GA. Our company was bringing her in..
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Noëlle Rakotondravony, Matt Brehmer & Yiren Ding

Highlights from IEEE VIS 2021

For the data visualization community all around the world, the last week of October was marked by IEEE VIS 2021. This was the second year..
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Claire Santoro

REVIEW: Michelle Rial’s New Book, Maybe This Will Help, Feels Like a Hug From a Friend (With Charts!!)

If there’s one thing that the last 18 months have shown us, it’s that we are all Going Through Some Stuff. Maybe that’s dealing with..
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Marianne Butler

REVIEW: “Data Visualization: Storytelling” on LinkedIn Learning

After decades of dancing between a natural affinity for engineering and an insatiable obsession with visual aesthetics, I’ve recently landed in the professional field of..
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Marília Ferreira da Cunha

REVIEW: “Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model,” a Domestika course by Federica Fragapane

If you are reading Nightingale, there is a chance you have just discovered the world of data visualization and information design. If that is the..
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Claire Santoro

Information Design for the Common Good: Behind the Scenes with Author Courtney Marchese

As an environmental analyst, I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how to use information design to help solve societal problems. I think..
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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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Neil Richards

REVIEW: Data Vis Book Club

Historically, I’ve been great at buying books to stage my shelves, but less good at reading them. In 2021, I’ve made a conscious effort to..
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Dario Rodighiero

Ars Memorativa as the Genesis of Information Design: A Conversation with Manuel Lima

Manuel Lima is one of the most prominent figures of data visualization since the publication of Visual Complexity (Lima 2011). In this conversation, Manuel Lima traces..
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Pearle Lundeen

REVIEW: Data + Diversity-Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois

I identify as “new to data.” So, when I attended Tableau’s February Data + Diversity talk, I was totally sending out imposter syndrome vibes. In..
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Chris Smith

REVIEW: Evergreen Data Academy

Two years ago, I didn’t even know that data visualization was a thing. I had just started a new job where I was asked to..
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Alexandra Khoo

REVIEW: Hands-on Data Visualization

As a community-taught dataviz designer, I love digging into the craft of turning data into narrative and finding new ways to combat the dataviz equivalent..
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Jason Forrest

REVIEW: Julie Mehretu, New Museum of American Art

We are all conglomerations of our influences, remembrances, and fascinations but few artists have assembled them on as vast a scale as Julie Mehretu. The..
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Mary Aviles

Generating Data Action: How an MIT Professor Hopes Data Can Empower Civic Change

Technology, applied responsibly, has the potential to drive social change. Public tech, sometimes called gov-tech, can connect and mobilize people, improve city experiences, and reduce government..
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: A Guided Virtual Tour of ‘Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination’

Like inventors, explorers, and philosophers, data visualizers have honed their craft through experimentation, abject failure, breakthrough moments, pushing boundaries, and by standing on the shoulders..
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Neil Richards

Avoiding Data Pitfalls — an Interview With Ben Jones

We caught up with Ben Jones, the founder and CEO of Data Literacy, and spoke to him about his recent book, Avoiding Data Pitfalls. Ben’s book..