I was on holiday recently in the Welsh border town of Hay on Wye, when I came across a book that instantly caught my attention.| Nightingale
The Eyeo festival has always held an interesting place in the community as, I’m told, it never really focused on any specific subject matter.| Nightingale
I was invited to an elementary school in the Bay Area to introduce kids to the wonderful world of data.| Nightingale
I don’t observe, collect, or draw, but the language of data visualisation is still helping me make sense of becoming a mother.| Nightingale
Recently, I concluded a 6-weeks intensive Data Analytics Course in our local community.| Nightingale
Once upon a time—or perhaps just last month—Issue 5 of Nightingale landed in the hands of readers around the world.| Nightingale
This article originally appeared in Issue 5 of Nightingale magazine.| Nightingale
In May 2022, the U. hit the grim milestone of 1 million COVID deaths| Nightingale
Axios launched in 2017 as a news organisation with the mission ‘Smart Brevity,’ emphasizing the power of saying more with less.| Nightingale
The class allowed students to see data as not just a result of gathering facts from the world, but as a tool to make meaning of reality.| Nightingale
I was excited to read and review Questions in Dataviz by Neil Richards, because I love the idea of data visualization design driven by questions.| Nightingale
Following up on his first book, which considered data from the individual level, Jordan Morrow’s Be Data Driven looks at harnessing the power of data...| Nightingale
If you ever wondered how to make a visualization or a dashboard that’s beautiful and functional at the same time, then read on.| Nightingale
A few months ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ciera Martinez to discuss the founding of the project, Data Science by Design, and what they've...| Nightingale
This article will mark my last one as the Editor-in-Chief of Nightingale. It's time for me to pass the torch to our editorial team and reveal my master plan!| Nightingale
The multi-disciplinary nature of the data visualization profession presents opportunities for fruitful collaboration while also leading to points of...| Nightingale
We have all been on the receiving end of bad presentations.| Nightingale
Stumbling into a small peer support community I arrived at Outlier 2021 eager to learn and explore.| Nightingale
The Data Garden Project started as a small group of creative learners. Now, it’s growing into a global community.| Nightingale
Integrating data visualization into non-profit work is both a strategic advantage and an easy pitfall.| Nightingale
Throughout my career, I've oscillated between working solo on data visualization projects and being a part of larger teams tasked with creating compelling...| Nightingale
April marked the second anniversary of publishing the interactive data visualization project that changed my career trajectory.| Nightingale
The DVS Mentorship Program revolutionized my creative process: learning is iterative, failure is vital, growth comes in many forms, and straight lines are...| Nightingale
I stumbled upon data visualisation art quite by accident early in 2022, at a time when I was at an interesting crossroads in my life.| Nightingale
Our Environment, the newest installment in the Data Science x Design Collective’s series of anthologies, is a delightful collection of essays, zines,...| Nightingale
This is the sixth installment of a year-long data visualization journey.| Nightingale
Feedback elevates work, but only when it is done right.| Nightingale
Image credit: Dataviz tools network image© 2023 Ihar Yanouski.| Nightingale
tl;dr: After teaching many data professionals about bullet graphs and using them in many dashboards, I started to notice that they had a fair number of...| Nightingale
User testing is not common practice in internal KPI dashboard projects.| Nightingale
Lindsey Poulter won the World Data Viz Prize using a mix of dashboard features—including a shuffle button to randomize the view.| Nightingale
“What you measure, you improve. ” You’ve heard this a million times. It sounds nice. It seems plausible| Nightingale
This article is a continuation of Information in the Margins.| Nightingale
How a person receives a product is as important as the product itself, with truck drivers being a great way in understanding this point.| Nightingale
The X,Y Files or "How do you communicate with extradatastrial clients?" The encounter took place in the last hours of the evening.| Nightingale
In today's world, you need to run very fast just to stay in place.| Nightingale
In April of 2024, Taylor Swift released her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD), which she wrote over the past two years, during her...| Nightingale
The Half-Full Learning Curve or “Could we be happy with what we already know?“ I sighed at the sight of the calendar I was holding in my hand.| Nightingale
This article is part V in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new.| Nightingale
This article is part IV in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new.| Nightingale
This article is part III in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new.| Nightingale
Imposter syndrome came up as a common struggle in October’s Topics in Data Visualization discussion about education on the DVS Slack channel.| Nightingale
This article is part of a larger effort to leverage the DVS Survey data to provide useful insights about data visualization to our members.| Nightingale
This article is part II in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new.| Nightingale
This screen shot as of April 20, shows how close the team is to Club 100 and does not include the eleven viz found on our Tableau public data site.| Nightingale
In my classes, I give students an assignment—find a dashboard from the dashboard gallery and write a review of it.| Nightingale
The Vacation Paradox or "Why are we the most productive when we’re off?" The domino set was missing its double 5 as well as the 5/6.| Nightingale
on her new book, Data Visualization for People of All Ages Nancy Organ is a Seattle-based data visualization practitioner and author of Data Visualization...| Nightingale
This article is part 10 in a series on data exploration.| Nightingale
I’ve been an avid Wordle player for a few years now.| Nightingale
Hi, my name is Victor, and I want to share my experience using data art to overcome my social anxiety and make connections at the Bansko Nomad Fest.| Nightingale
The C(h)art Before the Horse or “Do we really need data in dataviz?” The color palette was set, three complementary hues of blue, green, and...| Nightingale
Wrestling with which data fit for a design is challenging, but it’s vital to avoid overstuffing designs that end up valuing content over negative space...| Nightingale
We’ve all made embarrassing dataviz mistakes, whether we’re beginners or superstars.| Nightingale
Many thinkers, especially those with an inkling of analytic idealism, lament how we have “taken the map for the terrain. ” The map is a metaphor| Nightingale
Observation: The way to people's hearts through analytics is through their stomachs! This spring, while traveling around the world, I visited the capital...| Nightingale
This project has a sad beginning. I was at a networking event in the Netherlands on April 20, 2018, when a colleague said: "Avicii has died| Nightingale
By the end of the second year of my Master's program, my love for data journalism, crochet, and football resulted in an unusual project.| Nightingale
In every field of human endeavour, the impulse to generalise—the urge to find parallels—never goes away fully.| Nightingale
The Client Always Rings Twice or "Was there life before zoom calls?" The smiling face was now facing downward.| Nightingale
tl;dr: After having explained how to read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not...| Nightingale
In the business of consulting, our clients rely heavily on data visualization to make sense of complex information and drive decision-making.| Nightingale
The Mystery Job or "Why do I need half an hour and puppets to explain what I do for a living?" It was the dreaded question, the one that stopped all the...| Nightingale
Dashboard design elements There are five important elements to consider in the design phase for building great data visualizations.| Nightingale
Autumn foliage colors inspired me to chart global temperature change. Here's how I created a data visual with leaves.| Nightingale
A geodata project helped diagnose problems with education access in Tanzania, allowing education stakeholders to devise solutions to boost school attendance.| Nightingale