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My paper 'Information on different types of people for graphic communication, website and information designers' has been published on the Usability Geek website...

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...

TwoTone lets you turn data into sound and music. It uses the process of sonification to let you hear data. It’s free and open-source and runs 100% on the web, so you don’t need to download...

Earlier this year, my friend Elijah made a bold claim: that most people in data visualization end up leaving, because there’s something wrong with the current state of the field. It stirred quite a...

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...

Plotparade.com is an experimental chart creator tool that lets you create beautiful, unusual looking infographics from simple datasets. It offers a handful of design templates: pick one, copy and...

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...

A video of an interactive visualisation that demonstrates how colour (green, white and grey) is used to display associations, and dissociations, in data. This is fun way of educating people in how...

It’s hard to find the most appropriate visualization method. But the basic journalistic questions and the structure of your data-set already define your visualization. The Infographic Taxonomy...

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...

In an attempt to feel a connection to my fellow female information designers, I visualized the 142 women who responded to Elijah Meeks' data visualization practitioner survey. It shows the...

Initially designed as a gift for a client, the sketchbook was so successful that it became an ongoing project. Today, with over 17 designs, the sketchbooks have traveled the world and are a great...

kepler.gl is a data-agnostic, high-performance web-based application for visual exploration of large-scale geolocation data sets. Built on top of deck.gl, kepler.gl can render millions of points...

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...

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...

As a job-seeker in the budding field of data visualization, it can be difficult to know which role and organization would best fit your needs. Maybe you're an engineer who wants to also dabble in...

“Data” has penetrated into every industry and business function area today and has become an important production factor. And we can easily find that in this era of big data, no matter what we want...

A common business question is "How does the percent of total for a category change over time?" Some ways that are typically used to visualize this data include a stacked area chart, stacked bar...

VR-Viz provides high-level react components to generate 3D visualization in webVR. It also gives a framework which follows a layered approach to describe and construct visualizations in a...