Color Jitter: Using Randomness to Augment Categorical Visualizations
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A colormap can enrich a story by anchoring the value mapping to our shared experience or symbolism.
Color Jitter: Using Randomness to Augment Categorical Visualizations
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A colormap can enrich a story by anchoring the value mapping to our shared experience or symbolism.
Flags and Figures
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In both vexillology and data visualisation, the elegance lies in simplicity, the power in clarity, and the beauty in purposeful #Design.
Visualizing the History of Saturn and its Rings
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In March 2025, Saturn’s rings will disappear. Well, this isn’t entirely true. NASA has confirmed that the rings will disappear, yes, but they will only disappear from Earth’s view.
Visualizing Music Through Data: Are The Most Popular Ghost Songs Statistically More Metal?
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Ghost, the Swedish satanic metal band that blew up during the summer of 2022 when their song “Mary On A Cross” went viral on TikTok, now has over 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify—rising from around 2 million before summer of 2021.
Internal #Design: Success Requires Form and Function
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My journey with EdWise and the Career Explorer #Tools taught me about generating change using innovative #Data_Visualization within an organization.
What to Consider When Considering the Audience
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“Considering the audience” is one of the most important pieces of advice in storytelling and #Data_Visualization, but is can be a vague suggestion. This article turns this suggestion into a checklist you can go through to ensure your audience is considered.
Lessons from Physicalizing Data for a Better World
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Autumn foliage colors inspired me to make a global temperature change heat map. Here’s how I created a #data_physicalization with leaves.
Infographics Journalist Charles Apple on Making Effective #Charts
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Charles Apple, the “Further Review” page editor of The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, talks about graphics reporting.
Step Aside Line Graphs And #Bar_Charts! This Is a Job For Me.
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If line #Charts and bar charts don’t quite fit the data, #step_charts can be a great alternative. Here’s a primer on when—and #How_To—use them.
Worth the Right Swipe? Using Data to Find Love on Dating Apps
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Curious about online dating life but hesitant to try out the apps, a love-seeker visualizes dating data to boost chances of success.
Defying Chart #Design Rules for Clearer Data Insights
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Sir David MacKay, a UK scientist, challenged conventional chart design and created a truly insightful #Data_Visualization about sustainable energy.
Visualizing Metal and Mayhem
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Geared for modern day metal cover bands, this data viz project layers data from different sources to show which bands rock the #Charts.
I Visualized My One-Year-Old’s Relentless Daycare Bugs and It Calmed Me Down
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When viruses started coming home from daycare and making his family sick, this dad made a #Data_Visualization to keep things in perspective.
From Chocolates to Bar Graphs
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“Abbu, I’ll make a graph of all the chocolates you eat while I’m asleep and will send it to your team,” my daughter Pariza complained,..
#Charts #Community #Data_Literacy #Data_Visualization #Kids_Dataviz
Why I Stopped Using Bullet Graphs (and What I Now Use Instead)
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tl;dr: After teaching many data professionals about bullet graphs and using them in many #dashboards, I started to notice that they had a fair number..
#Business_Intelligence #Charts #Data_Literacy #Data_Visualization #How_To
Five Inspiring #Data_Visualization Galleries
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If designed with care and preparation, data visualization can immensely improve viewers’ understanding of what is happening. Yes, data exploration and data analysis are essential,..
Game of Thrones — Network of the Dragon
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One of my first #Data_Science projects was titled, Who Dies Next in the Game of Thrones?—a short article based on my data mining semester..
#Charts #Data_Visualization #How_To #Network_Graphs #social_network_mapping
Insights Of Their Own: Visualizing Women’s Baseball
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Viz by the author.
#Charts #Community #Data_Visualization #Historic_Dataviz #How_To #sports #spotlight
#How_To Visualize a Graph with a Million Nodes
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Large-scale graph visualizations are tricky. The more nodes and edges you have in your network, the more difficult it is to compute the layout for..
#Charts #Cosmograph #Data_Science #Data_Visualization #Network_Graphs #Tools #WebGL
What a Book Published in the 80s Taught Me about #Data_Visualization
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I was on holiday recently in the Welsh border town of Hay on Wye, when I came across a book that instantly caught my attention...
Beyond the Bar: Alternative Methods for Visualizing Two Points of Change
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People love comparisons, whether between two groups or the difference in an outcome between two time points. Many data (visualization) designers use a clustered bar..
#Bar_Charts #Business_Intelligence #Charts #Dashboard_Design #Data_Visualization #How_To #line_charts
I Asked an Artificial Intelligence to Draw a Chart
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A new generation of text-to-image generative models are rapidly changing what is possible in generative design. Two apps in particular, Midjourney and Dalle-E 2, have..
#AI #Art #Charts #generative_model #illustration #ISOTYPE #Neurath
#spotlight: The Pinterest of Data Visualisation
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150 stunning chart examples, and growing! I’ve just created a website called dataviz-inspiration.com and it showcases hundreds of stunning dataviz projects I’ve encountered in the..
#spotlight: #How_To Say ‘I Love You’ with a Graphic
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For the past two years, the #Data_Visualization narratives we’ve become familiar with infection curves, maps of health zones, and models of how the virus..
#Charts #Data_Humanism #Data_Literacy
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The Visual Evolution of the Tommy Westphall Universe
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Television series finales often offer their long-time viewers heartfelt moments, character arc completions, plot line conclusions, tears, laughs and more. Unlike any other series finale,..
#Charts #Data_Art #Data_Visualization #Design #How_To #spotlight