The data visualization blog Beautiful Data has some great stuff this week from the Strata Conference. The most recent post by Benedikt Koehler features a network map of the tweets from the first ...

Using non-inclusive or dehumanizing language in data visualizations can lead to othering groups of people or implying one group is the “norm.” A June 2020 interactive Tableau dashboard that showed the ...

Knoema is just such a service. I don’t recall when I first learned of it, but I finally had the chance to try it out last week. It took very little time to create this chart (using data from the ...

And it had a tremendously positive impact. That was three years ago. On January 9 at the 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, Hofschire gave a well-attended presentation called “Data Visualization ...

The data is great, but the visualization is even better. In the software, we were able to see how home values move across time and space with a complex "Heat Map." Just like how we see weather ...

A lot can change in a few hours. Yesterday, the New York Times' data visualization blog The Upshot gave Donald Trump a 16% chance of winning. As of 10:30 p.m. ET, the blog pegged Trump's chances ...

“It is very cool to see how they get into the shoes of the end user. They are always very thoughtful about how someone will use this (data) to improve our schools.” Here’s one possible solution: The ...

The launch of the visualization and infographic community Visual.ly by former Mint.com super powers Stew Langille and Lee Sherman also speaks to the rise of infographics, with an apropos video ...