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
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
Oxford Dictionary defines empathy as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.| Nightingale
What do data visualization and comics have in common? One of these is used to communicate in science and journalism, and the other appears in fine art and...| 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
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in revolutionizing data visualization.| Nightingale
Recent dataviz research shows how the most popular tropes in political data journalism can distort the democratic process.| Nightingale
It’s Monday morning, and the team is in a rush. Everyone scrambles to pull numbers from slow-loading tables published on the Tableau Server| Nightingale
Now that I have your attention, let me ask you three simple yes-or-no questions.| Nightingale
Integrating data visualization into non-profit work is both a strategic advantage and an easy pitfall.| 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
In today's world, you need to run very fast just to stay in place.| 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
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
This article is part 10 in a series on data exploration.| 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
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
In every field of human endeavour, the impulse to generalise—the urge to find parallels—never goes away fully.| 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
Dashboard design elements There are five important elements to consider in the design phase for building great data visualizations.| Nightingale
Our first public release of EdWise in summer of 2015 included this mapping functionality.| Nightingale
Autumn foliage colors inspired me to chart global temperature change. Here's how I created a data visual with leaves.| Nightingale