Tag: Review

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Jason Forrest

REVIEW: Atlas of the Invisible

It’s been about 450 years since Theatrum Orbis Terrarum was published by Dutch cartographers in 1570 as an attempt to collect the entirety of knowledge..
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Jason Forrest

REVIEW: Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

The art of fandom is to observe and infer. This is especially true in cinema as the cult of the auteur director fuels our reverence..
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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: Mindworks – The Science of Thinking

Researchers and analysts are always seeking new ways to engage people, to help their insights feel meaningful to their audiences. Action is rarely generated from..
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Neil Richards

REVIEW: How Can We Use Comics to Tell Data Stories?

This post is a review of From Data to Stories, a book from Richie Lionell and Ramya Mylavarapu of Gramener, described on its front page..
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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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Simone Betito

REVIEW: Edith Young’s Color Scheme Is the Whimsical Data Visualization Book We Need Right Now

Color Scheme, An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes is not your typical data visualization book. It may be due to..
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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

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

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..