Welcome to New Nightingale!

Updates on Nightingale’s web transition, DVS membership, and recognition for Nightingale writers

Claire Santoro

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4 min readJun 17, 2021

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It has been a HUGE week at Nightingale, and we are thrilled to introduce you to our new website: https://nightingaledvs.com/. Last Tuesday, we launched the stand-alone, paywall-free site with over 50 articles, a new brand identity, and an expanded team to serve our dataviz community. Creating and launching the website was truly a team effort — many thanks to the dozens of volunteers who helped make it happen!

One of many aspects of the new site that we are excited about is the freedom it will grant us to bring in different types of content. You may have noticed that we already kicked off our brand-new kids section with a piece by Julia Krolik, and we’re also looking forward to featuring more image-rich pieces like Heather Jones’ behind-the-scenes description of her cicada infographic. If you have suggestions for content we should feature, get in touch at Nightingale@datavisualizationsociety.org.

The Circle of Life in All Its Bizarre and Cruel Glory. Photography by Jamie Chung. Infographic by Heather Jones for Time Magazine, 2013.

But wait, there’s more!

Nightingale wasn’t the only launch this week: The Data Visualization Society just launched its membership options— which include an option to subscribe to the Nightingale print magazine. (Digital will always be free! Stand-alone magazine subscriptions, without DVS membership, will be available later this summer.) Why join? Paid members will receive additional perks and, equally as important, will help the organization by allowing us to invest in communication platforms and events to connect members, educational and inspirational programming, and leverage additional resources to foster skills growth, knowledge exchange, and meaningful critique. Plus, did we mention that you will get two issues of a beautiful magazine full of inspirational dataviz each year? Sign up now for 20% off the first year of membership with the code LAUNCH-DVSPROMO2021. (Promo code expires June 31, 2021.)

Trivia…?

Last month’s Q: In Lilach Manheim’s Nightingale article, she notes that data scientist was proclaimed the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century back in 2012. According to Tinder data, what were the actual sexiest jobs (defined as those most likely to garner a swipe-right) for U.S. men and women in 2018?

A: Men: interior designer; women: registered nurse

Community Spotlight

Congratulations to Nightingale writers Inbal Rief and Ravid Reif for making it to the top 10 in the Women in Analytics Conference 2021 Data Visualization Competition! Check out their “Not on our watch” submission and vote for it in competition here: https://womeninanalytics.com/data-viz-competition/.

In the Wild

“When Graphs are a Matter of Life and Death,” by Hannah Fry, The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/21/when-graphs-are-a-matter-of-life-and-death?mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=tny&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

“How to Make a Beeswarm Plot in RAWGraphs and Then Edit in PowerPoint,” by Alli Torban, Data Literacy: https://dataliteracy.com/how-to-make-a-beeswarm-plot-in-rawgraphs/

“Designing for the Data Visualization Lifecycle,” by Elijah Meeks, Noteable: https://medium.com/noteableio/designing-for-the-data-visualization-lifecycle-42d854cbf7d4

“The One With Every Episode of Friends Ranked,” Chartr: https://www.chartr.co/newsletters/2021/5/26/the-rise-and-rise-of-lvmh

In Case You Missed It

György Markos and His Pictorial Information Graphics

Let Attila Batorfy introduce you to Hungarian Marxist, geographer, and economist György Markos, not the first to introduce ISOTYPE to the Hungarian public, but the only one to leave a consistent body of pictorial statistics work when few used the method.

A page from *100 years of the Hungarian Industry, 1942*

Six Ways to Bring Empathy into Your Data

One of the big challenges in visualizing data, and quantitative research in general, is helping readers connect with the content. Read an excerpt from Jon Schwabish and Alice Feng’s new report on bringing a racial equity awareness to communicating data.