“Nightingale and Chill” Week
Join us for our week-long celebration of the intersection between entertainment and data visualization
Data visualization is a great way to engage with our favorite movies, books, TV shows, and other pieces of entertainment. We can celebrate our favorite aspects of these pieces of art as well as reveal connections and ideas that were previously invisible. Most of all, it’s a fun way to connect things we love — visualizing data and kicking up our feet for a movie night. All week, Nightingale is exploring the intersections between data visualization and all kinds of entertainment. You can keep up with all of it on this page, which we’ll update with new articles throughout the week:
Visualize… Data… Action!
Documentaries employ a number of useful techniques to marry information and narrative. What can data viz practitioners learn from documentary filmmakers? And how can we apply storytelling techniques such as voice-overs, interviews, reenactments, and the myth of neutrality to our own work?
‘Hell Drivers’ Should Be More Than a Footnote in British Film History. Data Viz Shows Why.
Behind the scenes of a data viz project that shows why Hell Drivers doesn’t get its proper due as a major film in British cinema history.
Museums Are Going Digital — and Borrowing From Data Viz in the Process
COVID-19 has fundamentally altered how museums operate, forcing many to add to their online collections. But providing online access to a museum’s collections and data is one thing, and developing a curated experience out of it is another. Here’s a survey of how different museums are approaching this task, and how many of them are drawing from data viz.
Mapping “The Phantom Tollbooth”
“Before making a deep dive into various ways to discern the story of The Phantom Tollbooth, I was already in love with the work, but now that I’ve dissected it, the book holds a special kind of nuance. Each of my visualizations represents Milo’s adventure in a new way and reveals just how well Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer constructed it. There is always more than one interpretation of a piece of literature, and visualizing the data behind the book provides a fantastical world of insights I never could have imagined.”
Charts: An Overlooked Source of Humor
An interview with the creators of Charty Party, the data visualization card game, on having fun with charts, data literacy and more.
Mapping My Literature Landscape
Tracking habits and tendencies can reveal surprising patterns in what we consume. This article is about using data to unlock — and understand — our reading histories.
How Tekken Reinvented My Data Visualization Design Process
Engaging the community around this fighting game challenged me to rethink my approach to creating data visualizations.
Viz What You Love
“Self-development, even through fun topics and unorthodox charts, is a journey. You’re still going to put in hours on evenings and weekends, and results aren’t immediate. If you doubt me, feel free to look back through my Tableau Portfolio, you’ll see plenty of clunkers. However, if you treat yourself to projects that you are passionate about, you’ll find yourself picking up neat tricks, greater speed, and a new zeal that will cross over into your day job in an amazing way.”
