Tag: Review

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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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Alec Barrett

Where Data Meets Literacy: A Review of Richard Brath’s “Visualizing with Text”

What do a dictionary entry, the Electoral House of Bavaria’s family tree, and Compact Rectangular Euler Diagrams have in common? These are among the dozens..
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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..
“Data-Driven Storytelling” by N. H. Riche, C. Hurter, N. Diakopoulos and S. CarpendaleD
Lorenzo Amabili

Data-Driven Storytelling: A Short Review

Researching how to leverage visual storytelling for medical imaging data analysis, I was looking for a road map to obtain a more structured and solid..
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Neil Richards

Encode 2019: Our Round-up of Round-ups

Last month, the inaugural Encode conference took place in London. The conference focused on the pillars of design, education, and journalism within data visualisation. A..
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Allen Hillary

Michelle Rial’s New Book Dreams of Being on Your Coffee Table

Michelle Rial is a San Francisco–based information designer who readily admits she has a slight obsession with charts. Her works of art have been featured..
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Nigel Hawtin

Finding Inspiring Data Visualisations In Mid-century Nature Books

Creativity and inspiration can come from anywhere in life. For me over the past couple of weeks due to fracturing my right (drawing) arm, it..