Tag: Tools

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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Color Scheming from a Vintage Visualization

In this writing, I discuss how to build fresh color schemes from a vintage visualization.  I use a bubble chart created in the 1890s as..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Five Steps to a Diverging and Contrasting Color Scheme for Data Visualization

In this writing, I discuss the similarities between a Complementary Color Harmony and a Diverging Color Scheme for data visualization. The final results can look..
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Marilia 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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Robert Simmon

Making Sense of Satellite Data, An Open Source Workflow: 2. Pre-processing Data with QGIS

There is more satellite data available now than ever before, but it still takes a little bit of work to convert the raw data into..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Getting Physical with Perceptual Uniform Color Schemes: The Journey from HCL to CMYK and Pantone

In this writing, I discuss how to move your data visualization created with a Hue Chroma Luminance (HCL) color scheme to a physical or hard..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Creating a Perceptual Uniform Color Scheme By Combining I Want Hue And Viz Palette

In this writing, I discuss how to use the “i want hue” web app with Viz Palette  to create perceptually uniform color schemes for data..
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Jeremy Kuzub

Aurora Speeding Tickets

Before smartphones, digital cameras, and orbiting satellites, the international scientific community recruited volunteer observers across the globe to record and report aurora borealis activity as..
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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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Walter Paixão Côrtes

How to in Grafana - Part 2: Creating Interactive Dashboards

This is the second article in a series about Grafana. Part 1 was an intro, demonstrating how to create a simple static dashboard using Grafana,..
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Leon Bueno

Brazil Deforests the Amazon by Areas Equivalent to the Size of 230 Manhattans Annually

The Amazon is important not just for Brazil, but also for the whole world. Here are four of the many reasons:1) PrecipitationThrough transpiration, the Amazon..
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Color in a Perceptual Uniform Way

This writing discusses the Hue-Chroma-Luminance (HCL) color space that is tailored to how we see colors as humans. In my previous writings on colorizing data..
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Mala Deep

Five Free Data Visualization Tools for Beginners

We have used data visualization in some way or other since time immemorial, from early cave paintings to today’s advanced information dashboards. The human eye..
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Walter Paixão Côrtes

How to Use Grafana for Data Visualization

Chances are, if your data visualization background comes from outside of IT, you have never heard anything about Grafana. Grafana has primarily been used for..
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Simone Betito

Explorer les Plugins Graphiques avec Figma

Pour voir la version anglaise, click here. J’ai utilisé de nombreux outils dans ma carrière dans la visualisation de données. J’ai commencé principalement avec le logiciel..
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Simone Betito

Exploring Chart Plugins in Figma

View this article en français ici. I’ve used a lot of tools in my data visualization career. I started my career mainly using Tableau. In grad school,..
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Katie Kilroy

What is Data Scaffolding?

Even if you’ve never heard of data scaffolding, it’s likely that you have (or will face!) a data problem of your own for which scaffolding..