LETTER

Meet Some Data Viz Stars

Isaac Levy-Rubinett
Nov 1 · 2 min read

Data visualization draws practitioners from disparate fields and with varying skill sets. One of our goals at Nightingale and at the DVS more generally is to bring members of this diverse community into contact with another, and facilitate exchange and learning between people with different backgrounds; between data scientists and artists, designers and cartographers, journalists and programmers. We are all data visualizers (vizzists?), after all.

This week on Nightingale, our articles feature some of the standout data viz practitioners in this community. We published interviews, panel roundups, and more that highlight some of the amazing work within data visualization, and some of the amazing people who create it.

Today, we published “Power to the Powerless,” an interview with Mona Chalabi, conducted by Elijah Meeks and Noelle Rakotondravony. Mona is a data journalist and editor at The Guardian US, and she is known for her unique style and impactful visualizations. She discussed her career path, her creative process, and the role of data visualization in activism.

We also interviewed Tim Wallace, who now works as a visual journalist and geographer for Descartes Labs, in “On Being a Spatial Data Archaeologist.” Coleman Harris asked Tim about his Building In America project, the responsibility of being a cartographer, and the hardest question of all: Print or digital?

Neil Richards rounded up various roundups from the inaugural Encode conference in London. After two days of workshops, discussions, and panels about design, education, and journalism within data visualization, these takeaways from Neil and other attendees highlight the importance of learning from and sharing with others in the data viz community.

Similarly, Ripley Cleghorn and Katherine Mello wrote about “Finding Comfort in Uncertainty” and other reflections from a panel featuring Nadieh Bremer, Jill Hubley, and Shirley Wu, moderated by Sarah Kay Miller.

We are grateful for all of these practitioners’ willingness to share their experiences, process, and expertise. Of course, where would we be without some of the very earliest information designers and cartographers? Paul Kahn continued his series on global information design with “Maps = Eyes + Imagination,” in which he analyzed six of the earliest maps of the known world.

As always, please get in touch if you are interested in writing for Nightingale!

Nightingale

The Journal of the Data Visualization Society

Isaac Levy-Rubinett

Written by

managing editor for Nightingale

Nightingale

The Journal of the Data Visualization Society

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