An engaging data visualization is more than making a graph look ‘pretty’ — If you’re a designer who works with data nerds a lot, you might have found yourself getting requests like: “Just do your magic and make this look good.” …

Why is Florence Nightingale our data visualization historical token female? How do we move beyond it?

Data is everywhere, and design is the key to leveraging it — I am a data nerd. I grew up, professionally speaking, designing studies, collecting data, and trying to get people to make use of the analysis and results. Then one day I realized that no one was going to pay attention to my amazing, glorious, wonderful data if my reports and…