A practitioner’s guide to the practice of visualization

Tom MacWright

Sep 23, 2017

Thoughts on higher-level visualization libraries & the visualization industry

655 Frustrations Doing Data Visualization

Earlier this year, my friend Elijah made a bold claim: that most people in data…

OpenVis Conf 2017, Aerial View

Well, another OpenVis Conf has come and gone. The gathering was a great opportunity to discuss the state of the field with a variety of practitioners, from data scientists to information designers to social scientists to everything in between (and adjacent).

Dispatches from the data visualization gutter

All fields need a diverse fauna, and data visualization is no exception. We need…

Charting the Next Cycle

Data visualization, like other growing disciplines, seems to go in cycles: boundaries are redefined via a new invention or process, adoption increases, practitioners analyze the gains they’ve made and reorient themselves toward new goals. The different schools of thought that arise from…

There be dragons: dataviz in the industry

I started being serious about data visualization around 2005, when the field was still pretty niche and people like Martin Wattenberg, Ben Fry, Jonathan Harris, Marcos Weskamp, Eric Rodenbeck, Jer Thorp or Santiago Ortiz only started to explore what using…

Visualizing, The Field: Finding Our Way

There are numerous routes through the profession of Data Visualization, and most of them are still uncharted. However, we in the field have found that many of these lead us away from the work of visualization itself and into other related territories.

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