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Evocative Photos
If you have qualitative data, you can use it to effectively personalize your data story. Here is a concrete example from a group advocating for changing the built environment to support people making...
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“Physicalize” Your Data
There are lots of people excited about fancy-pants computer-generated data pictures right now, but I want to remind you that doing things in the physical world can often be more compelling....
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The Power of the Explanatory Comparison
Even if your visual data presentation looks awesome, that doesn’t mean the message is getting across. One reason this happens is that sometimes the numbers don’t mean anything to the audience; they...
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Finding Data Stories
Many people have written about techniques for telling data driven stories (1). However, I’m struggling to find a similar list of techniques to help people in finding stories in their data. To do that...
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Building Your Toolbox of Techniques
One of the things I emphasize in my workshop is building a toolbox of presentation techniques. With a toolbox ready at hand, it is a lot less intimidating to pick an appropriate technique for a...
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Being the Data (ie. data & body syntonicity)
Recently I’ve seen a number of new examples of physically-embodied data presentations – examples where each person participates with their body representing the data that they are. Using your body to...
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Lasers, Food & Data (Telling a Story About Food Security)
Can a vegetable tell a story about food access in Somerville? Yep. “70% of Somerville Public School students receive free or reduced lunch” – laser-cut onto a cucumber In public settings, it can be...
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Getting Data to Answer Your Questions
I often introduce the idea that when you start with a dataset you should first start by asking your data some questions. For instance, in this dataset about food waste in Massachusetts, students in my...
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Getting Data to Answer Your Questions
I often introduce the idea that when you start with a dataset you should first start by asking your data some questions. For instance, in this dataset about food waste in Massachusetts, students in my...
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Architectures for Data Use
This is a summary of one section of my workshop on Data Architectures at the SSIR Data on Purpose workshop. Data can be used for a variety of things. In thinking about setting up architectures for...
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Getting Data to Answer Your Questions
I often introduce the idea that when you start with a dataset you should first start by asking your data some questions. For instance, in this dataset about food waste in Massachusetts, students in my...
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Architectures for Data Use
This is a summary of one section of my workshop on Data Architectures at the SSIR Data on Purpose workshop. Data can be used for a variety of things. In thinking about setting up architectures for...
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Talking Data & Uncertainty with Patrick Ball
Recently at the Responsible Visualization event put on the by the Responsible Data Forum I had a wonderful chance to sit down with the amazing Patrick Ball from the Human Rights Data Group and talk...
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Visualizing with Food
I’m fascinated by food and data. I’ve been doing food security data murals, my Data Storytelling Studio class in 2015 focused on food security data, and I’ve been laser-cutting data onto veggies for...
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