Hard-earned lessons from our notebook about information design and infographics. Hands-on, honest and condensed.
We’ve been working in the field of infographics and visual information for...
How can a conference facilitate the development of meaningful connections, both between and among the audience, the speakers, and their topics? Rather than assigning a specific time and place for...
The R, Python and D3.js graph galleries are three websites that display more than a thousand chart examples with their reproducible code, using the three main programming languages currently used...
Using data visualization can improve the effectiveness of human rights work that involves data. In particular, combining data and visuals in the promotion of human rights enables advocates to...
My paper 'Information on different types of people for graphic communication, website and information designers' has been published on the Usability Geek website...
The Data Visualization Society fosters a community where every member benefits from resources that support growth, refinement, and expansion of data visualization knowledge regardless of expertise...
Background: Creating visualizations that include multiple dimensions of the data while preserving spatial structure and readability is challenging. Here we demonstrate the use of geofaceting to...
Discover images with data visualization.
You may or may not know of Unsplash, the internet’s source of freely useable images.
Here, on viz.photos you can discover Unsplash’s images in a...
MorphCharts are composed of one or more related visualizations from a dataset, which smoothly transition between views. These transitions allow a user to maintain context while exploring multiple...
PhoenixMap, a visual analytics system to help analysts understand spatiotemporal distribution patterns and anomalies of many objects. It focuses on solving quantitatively visualizing the spatial...
Charticulator is an interactive authoring tool that enables the creation of bespoke and reusable chart layouts. Charticulator transforms a chart specification into mathematical layout constraints...
This plot is similar to a scatterplot, which is used to understand the relationship between two continuous measures. However, a change plot represents the current values on the x-axis and the...
Diagrammm: Beyond the Image
Data visualization has become a modern tool of communication that reveals a power of data. With it help stories hidden in figures could be told in a clear and...
DrWhy is a collection of tools for Explainable AI (XAI). It involves a set of data visualizations, explaining different aspects of predictive Machine Learning models and their performance.
I’ve...
Chartable is a blog written by people who work at Datawrapper, a charting tool for journalists.
Together with our readers, we explore how to create better charts and maps: What to consider when...
As the first mathematical monograph in ancient China, Jiuzhang Suanshu is the most important part of the ten books of Suanjing, and also the symbol of the formation of a complete system of ancient...
We submit a visualization design named The Contextual Family Tree. We have a software tool implemented in R that creates a tree from any standard GEDCOM file. It was published in a paper in the...
The Veins of leaves, the wings of a dragonfly, giraffe body texture, land cracked cracks, honeycomb shape, all have the same unique mesh structure. The most accurate words to describe this...
When it comes to data visualization, I’ve always been a bit curious why there wasn’t a nested bar chart interface where one could explore the figures/information that make up a specific piece of...
Explore this interactive visualization about the world of visualization itself - see charts, books, and tools arranged by popularity and trends in this collaboration between Google News Lab and...