What Data Visualization and Analysis Taught One Activist about Airbnb’s Impact on Communities
Activist and technologist Murray Cox has been described as a “Lone Data Whiz” who is Airbnb’s “Public Enemy No. 1 in New York.” These monikers..
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Chesca Kirkland
CoViz-19 Part 2: A Personal Visualisation of the UK’s ‘Roadmap to Freedom’
During the first UK national lockdown in 2020, I documented and visualised my experience of living alone for 75 days from April to June 2020...
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Carni Klirs
Data-Driven Album Covers
While there have been several great album covers that feature Data Visualization (Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures is based on a scientific diagram of Pulsars and..
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Heather Jones
SPOTLIGHT: Designer Dogs
For TIME’s annual Answers Issue in 2014, the graphics department was tasked with presenting data-driven visual solutions to both simple and complex questions, and compiling..
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Martina Zunica
SPOTLIGHT: 100 Bridgerton Colors
This project started from my interest in extracting color palettes from scenes of everyday life—I like to take pictures of what is all around me..
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Loris Mat
SPOTLIGHT: The Process behind “Among Us” and What I Learned from the DVS Census Challenge
Loris’s visualization won first place in this year’s Data Visualization Society Census Challenge, exploratory category. As a data visualization designer hobbyist, participating in the DVS Census..
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Alena Lorea
SPOTLIGHT: Europe against Racism – in Memoriam to George Floyd
The brutal killing of George Floyd made me rethink many things. Racism is a global problem, but this incident reached a tipping point that drove..
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Ali Tehrani
SPOTLIGHT: How Racially Diverse Are The Oscars, Really?
This article spotlights Ali Tehrani’s design process. This visualization was featured as Tableau’s Viz of the Day on April 26, 2021.Earlier this year, I came..
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Gwen Agbota
SPOTLIGHT: Visualizing the Political Regimes in the World
Gwen’s visualization won second place in this year’s Data Visualization Society Black In Data challenge. Like most people on the planet last year, I was..
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Duncan Geere & Miriam Quick
Loud Numbers and The Natural Lottery
The residents of the town of Nenana in Alaska have an unusual annual tradition. Every March, as the days begin to grow longer and the..
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Mary Aviles
100,000 Folds: The Stabilizing Power of Community
Even before the pandemic, social capital in America had been declining, which some have attributed to our increasingly diverse society. People need places to meet, outside of..
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Chesca Kirkland
CoViz-19: 10 Things I Learnt from 75 Days Alone in Lockdown
National lockdown was particularly scary for me as I was living in a tiny flat in Brighton, with no private outdoor space, on furlough and..
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Rohan Jhunja
Putting Three Meals on the Table
At Gramener, we each took up a personal data challenge over the month of December 2020. Since my family at home had been fighting over how..
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Javier Sanchez Gutierrez
Data Visualization in Parasite
A few months after becoming the first Korean film awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, the president of the jury, Alejandro G. Iñarritu,..
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Mary Aviles
Thoughtful Design: The Power of Naive Optimism
I hope that I am raising my three children to be inquisitive, innovative thinkers (and also good humans!). Design thinking was not a capital-T Thing..
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Mary Aviles
Data Visualization As an Act of Witnessing
In late 2016, I read an article by Michael Brennan, principal of Detroit-based, nonprofit design firm Civilla, in the Harvard Business Review. I was haunted by this line: “I..
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