In September 2020 I decided to stop working for the first half year of 2021 and go back to studying. I had just applied for the Fab Academy, a globally run, full-time course of 20 weeks, headed by Neil Gershenfeld from MIT, focused on learning how to become a maker / fabricator. Making designs on a computer and then turning these into a reality with machines such as laser cutters, 3D printers, milling machines, and more, while also incorporating electronics. It’s also known as “How to Mak...| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
I’ve created this page to share both some background on how I got into data visualization, but also share tips that have worked well for me to improve my skills and career. This is of course just my own account, your route will be totally different, but hopefully some of these tips will be helpful for you. How I Became a Data Visualization Designer Because I wanted to be very complete, I wrote a separate blog on how I went from studying Astronomy to becoming a freelancing Data Visualization...| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
In April, Sony Music Entertainment reached out to me with a really interesting project idea. When a single or album sells more than a certain amount of units they become a gold or platinum record. The artist generally receives a framed vinyl or CD. But in these days of data being tracked everywhere and listening to music online, could I develop a more data art inspired version of a gold record using data from the actual streams, charts and the song itself. Well, that sounded like an amazingly...| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30-year anniversary in April 2020 I created an extensive visualization, more of fully-fledged poster really, for Physics Today. Let me show you how the static visuals that I made still became one of the biggest projects I’ve ever worked on in terms of hours invested. I could’ve called this blog post “the impact of small design choices” because the main issue wasn’t necessarily what type of chart form to use. It was really how to displ...| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
Besides a visualization that plotted Hubble’s observation on a map in the sky, I created another dataviz for Physics Today to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30 year anniversary in April 2020. Revealing the types of astronomy targets that Hubble has been looking at. In this design blog I’ll take you through the design process that led to the final visual.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
For me making a data visualization look good and be effective on both mobile and desktop is one of the most difficult aspects of my work (next to browser bugs, implementing interactivity and optimizing performance). Although there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution I have found several different options across past projects that work for me.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
On April 11th 2019, the US National Pet day I released a dataviz driven exploration in collaboration with Google Trends. It went into the questions that people ask on Google to understand their cats and dogs better. In this blog I’ll be taking you through the long and windy design and creation process of the months before the release.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
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On the Graphic Science page of the July edition of Scientific American you could find three large circular charts about when babies are born. In this blog, let me take you along on the data & designs process that me, Zan Armstrong & Jen Christiansen went through to create this piece.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
A blog about the new solo talk I’ve created recently that revolves all around Data Sketches, the dataviz collaboration I’m (still) doing together with Shirley Wu. In this talk I (but also we) discuss the lessons that we’ve already learned from doing 10 months of creating an elaborate data visualization a month.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
In this blog I’d like to “formally” introduce and explain a new (and my first) d3 plugin to create a chart that I’ve started calling the loom. Although I was very much inclined to also call it the butterfly or labrys. However, I actually needed two words for this plugin, so loom + strings made more sense overall (thanks to Mike Bostock who provided the name).| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
I’d like to share some of my experiences about coding on an iPad…while in the desert of Namibia (*≧▽≦). Also list a few useful new SVG libraries I learned about (like animated SVG files, yes, a file). And of course show the end result of my Reasons to logo remix| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
I often get emails from people asking me diverse question about my path into data visualization. And after typing out my story for the Nth time I thought it might actually be easier if I just place it in a blog post. That way I can be more detailed & even add some images (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
I created the Hacking the Visual Norm talk for the Fronteers Conference, held in Amsterdam on October 6 & 7th 2016. During the talk I try to show several ways that you can go beyond the norm in the visualization of data. I use examples from both a business environment (things I made for Adyen or Deloitte) and personal projects. It revolves around Combining, Re-using, Designing & Hacking your visuals into something more effective and engaging.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
A very short blog where you can find the slides and video of the 3-minute elevator pitch I gave at the Reasons to conference in Brighton, UK on Wednesday September 7th 2016. And as a bonus some images of things that didn’t make it!| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
I wanted to share something I recently build with d3.js which might be useful for other people as well; a bar chart in which you can “brush”. Handy for when you have a lot of categories/bars to show with limited space, but you don’t want to only show the top X. By using the brush technique, you give the choice to the user. They can decide which portion of the bars to see, only the top 5, bottom 10, 20 in the middle, or all at once.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
I’ve already shown the diversity of using gradients in data visualization in several other blogs in this series. But you don’t even have to use gradients as something that runs smoothly from one color to another. They can be very handy for abrupt changes as well. The first time I ended up using this technique was when I became interested in the popularity of baby names.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
Just over a year ago I posted a blog about the Gooey effect that makes it seem as if things (SVGs) start sticking together once they come close to each other. As if they are water droplets merging together. For my preparation for the “SVGs beyond mere shapes” talk I returned to the gooey effect and in this blog I’d like to teach you a few more techniques to take full use of the power of the gooey.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
In this blog, I’ll show you how to add a color gradient to the chords of a d3.js Chord Diagram. This comes in handy when there is no net difference in the chords. But you can apply the technique to any gradient that you want to orient based on data. We’re going to look at the collaborations between Avengers. With all those cameo’s happening in the MCU, I wanted to know how often two Avengers had appeared in a movie together. This results in a symmetrical dataset since, if Thor appeared ...| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
Today it’s time for a short blog about a very subtle effect that can add a bit more pizzazz to your visualization. It’s definitely not something that will suit a business/no-nonsense chart. But then again, if you only make those kinds of charts, I feel that doing data visualization is definitely less enjoyable than if you try to have some fun with your creations every now and then. So let’s start by adding a bit of glow to our shapes!| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
In the past few weeks, several tutorials about SVG gradients in data visualizations have come to pass already. But those were mostly focusing on creating one gradient. In this tutorial, I want to show you how you can create a gradient for each of your datapoints. And how to adjust each of these gradients using some aspect of your data, so each gradient will become unique.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
In this short tutorial I want to introduce you to those wonderful color blending modes that you have (in Photoshop for example) where two colors overlapping each other can create another color. I actually started out trying to recreate this effect with SVG filters. But then I found out that it be done with just two lines of CSS.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
We’re picking up right where I left you in my blog on Hacking a Chord diagram to visualize a Flow where I turned a Chord Diagram into a more circular flow diagram. Even with the chords now having been turned into a “bat-plot” I still wanted to emphasize more that we were dealing with a flow from left to right, from Education to Occupation. So, I thought, why not try to use a gradient and animate a movement/flow towards the right.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
A filter that can create a subtle but interesting effect has to do with motion blur. The faster and closer to us things move in the real world, the more blurred they appear. And with the right filter, you can recreate this effect on the screen as well.| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
In this blog I want to show you the design process that went into creating the “Top Contributor Network” visual. Showing the ecosystem and synergy of the other repositories the top contributors of any GitHub repository have worked on. How it started from a simple network, and became it’s own thing. How it involved endless tweaking, and how it then all broke, before growing into its final form. You can find the interactive visual here (ps: it’s not really meant for mobile screens) and ...| An Award-winning Data Visualization Designer on Visual Cinnamon
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An Astronomer Passionate about Data Visualization & Data Art Photo by Piek.cc Hi! My name is Nadieh Bremer, which is pronounced as Na-di (di as in ra-di-o), so forget about that eh at the end. Nice to see you here! Let me explain a bit more about myself and how I got to where I am now. I’m a freelancing data visualization designer and artist, working from a lovely house in the woods, somewhere in the Netherlands, with a background in data science.| Data made insightful, effective & beautiful through visualization on Visual C...
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