A practitioner’s guide to the practice of visualization

Tom MacWright in Visualizing, The Field

Sep 23, 2017

Thoughts on higher-level visualization libraries & the visualization industry

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Shirley Wu in Visualizing, The Field

Sep 21, 2017

655 Frustrations Doing Data Visualization

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

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Eric Socolofsky in Visualizing, The Field

Apr 26, 2017

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).

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Jorge Camoes in Visualizing, The Field

Apr 17, 2017

Dispatches from the data visualization gutter

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

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Eric Socolofsky in Visualizing, The Field

Apr 3, 2017

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…

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Moritz Stefaner in Visualizing, The Field

Mar 23, 2017

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…

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Eric Socolofsky in Visualizing, The Field

Mar 20, 2017

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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