There have been many ways to entertain, motivate, or even impassion an audience — why not try data performance?

The Yurok Tribe in far northern California suffers from a condition plaguing numerous rural communities in the United States — addiction…

Seeing is not understanding: how to encourage data literacy early

A conversation with Daniel Donner on designing a cartogram of United States congressional districts

Satellite imagery surrounds us — from Google Maps and daily weather forecasts to the graphics illustrating news stories — but almost all…

A discussion exploring the broad spectrum of possibilities in the realm of census data visualisation in 2020 and beyond

Award-winning data storyteller RJ Andrews is author and founder of Info We Trust and a scholar of data visualization history. He helps…

Data Visualization Society members reflect on what a turbulent 2020 teaches us about working with data

How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

Incorporating web accessibility guidelines into data design

Writing about dataviz doesn’t mean just writing about how to design them, but also about what visualization is and could be

To sum it up — #vizresponsibly; which may mean not publishing your visualizations in the public domain at all.

Recently I had the opportunity to host the first Topic in Data Viz of 2020, under the topic: Is the word dashboards losing its value?

DVS was started one year ago today. Let’s take a data-viz look at who is part of it and all we’ve accomplished so far.

We need to demystify data viz. Here’s how.

How does data visualization work?

A conversation about favourites, how to approach learning a new tool, and why data sketching could change your life

Reflections from the Data Viz Society’s discussion on how to deal with complex truths and stakeholder conflict

Building for practicality may be the secret sauce for sustainable impact at the local level

The Data Visualization Society members share their views on this most elusive of design concepts.