How Do We Understand the State of Data Visualization?
An Introduction to the 2019 Annual Data Visualization Survey Results — and challenge!
The data visualization survey has been running since 2017 and it has been an essential mechanism for surfacing the challenges and opportunities that we face as practitioners. This year our executive director, Elijah Meeks, outlines just one theme that he’s seen in the data: a lack of time. Do we have enough time to explore our data? Do we have enough time to craft our work? Do we have enough time to speak with our audience and optimize our designs?
His article not only ruminates on this but also acts as an invitation for everyone to explore and share their findings… in our next Data Visualization Society challenge! So please take a look at the rules and then dig into the data below! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
DVS ANNUAL SURVEY CHALLENGE RULES
DVS ANNUAL SURVEY CHALLENGE DATA
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Articles you should take a look at this week:
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Credit Where Credit is Due: Mary Eleanor Spear
Rediscovering the life and work of a data visualization pioneer:
https://medium.com/nightingale/credit-where-credit-is-due-mary-eleanor-spear-6a7a1951b8e6
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A Journey Into the Heart of Sports: Data Viz with Daren Willman
Radar Wars and the Theory of Sports Data Visualization by Senthil Natarajan, our new Sportsviz editor, and Daren Willman, the Director of Baseball Research and Development for Major League Baseball:
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Color Coding Music Scores with Machine Learning
This 3-step guide helps designers and developers color code music scores by key, tempo, tone and feeling through musical notation and sequential progression.
https://medium.com/nightingale/color-coding-music-scores-with-machine-learning-a2443ef27d96
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The Process of Familiarity: An Interview with Nicholas Rougeux
He discusses the process behind his varied data explorations and painstaking recreations of historic design projects.
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We Live in a World of Funnels
This thought piece challenges us to consider how precision and accuracy are competing goals in data visualization
https://medium.com/nightingale/we-live-in-a-world-of-funnels-4f2d5c841d47
