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📊🪴☕️🏈🤷🏽♀️ dataviz nerd, plant mom & cautiously optimistic bengals fan // prev nurtured by: @axiosvisuals @fivethirtyeight “sim-rin” she/her
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guess it's my last week
@axios
, still a bit shocked and sad that half our team was laid off, but grateful to have learned so much from my kind, brilliant
@AxiosVisuals
coworkers // one last chart roundup of some faves from the past two years✨
NEW: Axios is laying off 50 people across the company. CEO
@JimVandeHei
just sent out this note — which says the layoffs are because of “changes in the media business”
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i can't believe there's only two weeks left of my internship
@FiveThirtyEight
...grateful for this newsroom taking a chance on me and creating such an empowering, supportive space. i've learned so much from the brilliant people there and become a better visual journalist.
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if you are a
#dataviz
hiring manager, what do you look for when reviewing a portfolio?
this was a question that came up several times from attendees at our early career
@DataVizSociety
event last night!
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as a student, i would look forward to this list every year for inspiration...and this year, I'm a contributor!
grateful to learn from and be part of this weird chArts crew🥰
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it's been six months since I started my first Adult job
@AxiosVisuals
!! I've learned what a 401k is, improved my R/Svelte skills, and made a bunch of charts! also my team >
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was clearly inspired by the
@OutlierConf
visual metaphor talks
latest
@AxiosVisuals
chart showing the lack of diversity in the interior design field
with four data points, it could have been a bar chart. I brainstormed words/concepts from "interior design" and here we are:
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What are your favorite
#datawrapper
"hacks"? Looking to expand my bag of tricks and be able to make more design decisions while using this convenient tool.
here's a thread with some of the "tricks" I've uncovered while making
#dataviz
in DW:
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My toxic trait in dataviz is trying to do the most in a chart for no reason (what is yours?) // an ode to the graveyard graphics and delulu drafts
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A lil process 🧵for an
@AxiosVisuals
chart
Note to self: Share my work early and often. Small design edits go a long way.
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not sure i will be able to call myself a proud graduate from
@NYUAbuDhabi
in 10 days...from admin's silence on the ethnic cleansing in Palestine to today's summer housing rejections for Indian students to the empty words of sympathy extended to low-income students...and much more
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a little before, middle, and after from a column for
@AxiosVisuals
// thanks to the team as always for edits especially jacque coming in with the gradient idea
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i like putting charts i’ve made over time together to see what color palettes, forms and design solutions i gravitate towards…so, some charts of 2023:
this year brought playing around with textures and brushes, creating many small multiples and beeswarms ...
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Another day, another
@axiosvisuals
process 🧵
Got to work with the incredibly talented & kind
@SophiaCai99
on a story examining the letters sent by 5 GOP House committees as part of their investigations
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finally celebrated graduating from college in September w my whole family! My sister got me a cake with a viz I made senior year using
@f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h
also, adulting is hard and will the post-grad existentialism ever go away
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Journalistic objectivity is working on a Super Bowl story even when your beloved team lost in the AFC Champs
#whodey
For this week’s
@axiosvisuals
column, I examined Super Bowl commercials by category 🏈
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in talking to dataviz friends from other newsrooms, i've learned the real rivalry is not which graphics team creates the coolest data stories, but which team is the ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶u̶n̶h̶i̶n̶g̶e̶d̶ quirkiest.
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aaah my first byline ever! beyond this milestone, this experience was a lesson in grappling with deadlines.
There's always more to work on, but for having 2 days to gather data, ideate, and build the viz + story, I'm happy! And grateful for all the amazing people I worked with
this article has one of the highest 😻😻😻-per-chart rates of any "in TK charts" piece we (or anyone, really) has published
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hope you never get laid off from your dataviz job but if you do go read the art of insight by
@AlbertoCairo
it's been healing as i try to rebuild my creative practice, find my joy for dataviz again, and reflect on why i make things/what i want to make in the future ✨
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Oct. 2 marked 100 days since Roe v. Wade was overturned...
A new
@Guttmacher
report shows: At least 66 abortion clinics in 15 states with strict bans have stopped offering abortion care since June 24
My latest viz for
@AxiosVisuals
for a story by
@OrianaBeLike
:
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New data piece for
@TheGazelleAD
is out! .
We explore diversity in faculty education at
@NYUAbuDhabi
and the challenges of collecting institutional data on diversity.
We use
@f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h
to build a chloropleth map, multi-step sankey, and a treemap.
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latest dataviz for
@AxiosVisuals
examining the number of senior congressional staff who are women of color:
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1 year(ish)
@AxiosVisuals
wow
Based on some favorite charts from the past six months, I like squiggly arrows and textures and straying from our color palette 🤷🏽♀️
Hope the next six months brings long-form story design, new svelte components, and mixing analog elements into viz ✨
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@KaleighRogers
and I did a *super serious* data exploration of Groundhog Day for
@FiveThirtyEight
and I got to make some fun charts with illustrations from
@_schem
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a before and after from my latest
@AxiosVisuals
chart // do annotations also take the longest for you??
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immensely proud of
@AnsariLubnah
-- she has been selected as one of the
@NYUAbuDhabi
Research Fellows. Excited to see how she uses art practices as valuable methods in her academic research and continues centering the human experience in her research. This woman is incredible!
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New data viz piece for
@TheGazelleAD
is out!
This week, the Data Team investigated The Gazelle itself, quantitatively analyzing the publication's identity after 200 issues.
We use
@f_l_o_u_r_i_s_h
to build 8 visualizations, our most extensive piece yet!
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this made my morning! obsessed with the art direction and loved seeing all the projects shared in this issue.
#NightingaleInPrint
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feeling so proud of my friends...one will be a PM at Noon, another pursuing teaching, one a data journalist at AP, two pursuing dream masters programs @ Oxford, another committing to their second-choice masters bc of a great scholarship, two queens doing PhDs
@nyu
and harvard 1/n
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Not every student "who wants to" can submit given the 15€ fee. Yet this is one of the few awards in dataviz & it can give early career folx exposure.
DM if you want to enter but can't pay the fee -- will pay for 5 students' fees (wish I could pay more, but am also a student)
💥 Every student who wants to should enter their work now!
#malofiej
Check out the latest winners (2020) of
@HS_Augsburg
@densitydesign
@UMInteractive
...
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issue 2😍
excited to make a cup of chai (or two) and pour through this
#nightingaleinprint
@DataVizSociety
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excited for
@OutlierConf
but also nervous about my first in-person Adult conference!!! any tips/good vibes appreciated <3
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Join us for Early Career Connect hosted by
@DataVizSociety
! Come mingle with other dataviz folx with similar interests! More info here: // poster by
@charlangaslangs
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left nyuad yesterday; currently in denial bc I'm sure to get my d2 zaatar manakish fix in ohio
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✨Come join us!✨ I've been in a similar role for 4 months.
I love my team!
-It's a fun, quirky, and compassionate culture
-I've learned so much from my team members who are generous in sharing their knowledge and feedback
-I have freedom to work on my own projects
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i'm not quite sure what's next for me, but i'm trying to be more comfortable with ambiguity and to not define my self-worth by what i do and what i make. all i know is that i want to keep improving my data/design/dev skills and to rest a bit after graduating this past sept.
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Had the honor of speaking with
@datadzif
, one of the most passionate people I’ve met in the
#dataviz
community!
We talked about creative energy, sharing work with a wider audience, and passion projects...our conversation left me energized and inspired as I hope it does for you!
In this edition of Early Career Corner,
@simranparwani
spoke with Dzifa Amexo, an analyst and involved member of the
@tableau
community. Get to know this inspiring practitioner as they chat about sharing your work, balancing goals, and setting boundaries.
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some questions:
-how to not let an org's styles affect my default ways of thinking?
-how to not tie my self-worth to my creative output?
-how to hone my craft in a sustainable way?
graduating in a pandemic was not fun but i'm finding my way and am grateful to do it in community
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i just want a job that pays me and lets me use/improve my skills to make a positive impact -- is that too much to ask???
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Great resource list with the voices that should have been part of
#TheSocialDilemma
.
Would also add Data Feminism by
@kanarinka
and
@laurenfklein
, Joy Buolamwini's work, and the Social Media Collective blog (danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Tarleton Gillespie)
Have you seen
#TheSocialDilemma
on Netflix? Want to learn more about the impact of social media on our lives?
Check out our resource list, and add your own! 🔽
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Join
@DataVizSociety
tmrw at 11am EST for a panel conversation about Building Your Career in Data Journalism! I'll be moderating the discussion and asking questions around building skills, landing opportunities, and normalizing rejection. Register here!
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not me buying a $7 latte to reward myself for making my own latte this morning 🤷🏽♀️
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can't wait to see how
@lau_assanmal
challenges norms in academia. she makes every space she's in more compassionate and reflective. can't wait to see how she reimagines the classroom to be based on trust and inclusion and decolonizes her syllabi. What a force of a woman. so proud
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one of those weeks where i might melt into a puddle at any moment.
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When I feel uninspired, I look at Elena's graphics...she's an incredible data journo who will elevate a newsroom with her thoughtfulness and approach to design, i learned so much as an intern working with her!
she's truly one of the best dataviz designer/developers out there ✨
I got laid off from
@FiveThirtyEight
today. I've loved every second of my time here since day 1. This newsroom is full of great, kind, compassionate, funny people who have changed the landscape of data journalism. It's sad to see it suffer greatly with Disney's layoffs.
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"Climate change worsened the flooding in Pakistan, to take a very clear example, yet the people of Pakistan created little of the atmospheric pollution that’s warming the planet."
to me, this piece exemplifies the best of data journalism and why its so important
🌏💧NEW: Pakistan’s flood disaster since mid-June was worsened by climate change. Yet, Pakistan emits just <1% of GHG, fueling demand for reparations from rich/fossil fuel-driven nations.
@climate
@bbgequality
@bbgvisualdata
w/
@eroston
+
@rachaeldottle
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also immensely grateful for all the journalists before me who have been so open and vulnerable about their layoffs and have normalized it (though why should it be so normal) // i feel less shame though it's hard for it not to feel like a reflection of my abilities
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Got to make ternary plots for the first time! And worked with brilliant people in the process.
A fascinating exploration into each Squad member's primary wins:
New from
@AlexSamuelsx5
,
@simranparwani
, and me: A deep dive into how all 6 Squad members first got elected:
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opening our critique file today before our meeting and seeing some stunning graphics from the past week from my team members
@AxiosVisuals
🤩
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got to discuss this chart a bit more for
@pbump
's WaPo charts newsletter! though a seemingly simple line chart, a lot of thought went into color choice, the time period displayed, etc.
12.5 hours until the newsletter lands.
This week:
- a good chart made by someone else
- a serviceable chart that becomes much better in context
- great charts from before i was born
- a look at early 1990s big hair
How can you resist?
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'“India needs help and many of us are hurting,” added Sharma, affirming this sentiment. “Don't look away.”'
a must read by
@HajeeKaashif
and
@nandini_kochar
:
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THIS! and finding opportunities as a fresh grad is difficult when many newsrooms have canceled their early career programs. Breaking into data journalism is so hard these days and I want to give up sometimes. But I love what I do and know I bring value and that keeps me going.
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Come work with me on data reporting and building interactive visualizations at
@TheGazelleAD
as a Data Editor! Applications for all positions are due on January 15!
Applications to join The Gazelle for Spring of 2021 are now open. The Gazelle is looking for students who are passionate about writing, editing, reporting and student journalism!
Deadline: Jan 15, 10am GST
Submit your application here:
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Come join me on the Early Career Committee
@DataVizSociety
! Looking for empathetic folx to help create inclusive spaces and programs to support those in the early stages of their data viz careers. Applications for all DVS committees are here:
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last week: told my boss we were too hot and too young to be writing web scrapers
this week: starting my third scraper so far and its only tuesday 🙃
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always in awe of
@erindataviz
, our resident cartography queeeen
The U.S. had a summer of extreme weather, from heat waves to drought and record-breaking flash flooding.
These maps show temperature and precipitation departures from average.
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"And so, perhaps in an admission that it couldn’t effectively prevent its discriminatory usage, Facebook finally removed the multicultural affinity category."
@themarkup
, in only six months, has completely transformed investigative data journalism. Follow their newsletter!
I went on vacation and came back to find that Facebook had quietly ended racial ad profiling.
It’s a big change. Over the years, Facebook’s racial ad targeting has been repeatedly found to enable illegal discrimination.
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Outlier is finally here! It's going to be a great weekend of talks and unconference sessions. I'm particularly excited for
@raeedahwahid
and
@heyjessicali
's talk on dataviz in student newsrooms and the undergrad student unconf session I'm hosting afterwards with
@EmiliaRuzicka
Hey all! Here is a thread of FAQs about Outlier!
❓Where is the schedule?❓
Outlier is taking place Feb 4th, 5th, 7th in US (East of US it flows into 6th & 8th)
Hopin registration & agenda:
Google calendar:
#Outlier2021
#dataviz
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Does anyone have examples of great community meetups or meeting platforms that don't rely too heavily on audio/video call? Trying to envision better ways to connect for early career
#dataviz
meetups.
@datavisclub
's shared doc book clubs are the only thing that comes to mind.
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so much heaviness has accumulated over time // from today's vigil for India
when our nyuad community was asked how they feel.
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love these iterations, can we normalize sharing the behind the scenes of
#dataviz
?
as an early career person in dataviz, it's so inspiring when people share their processes. it reveals how much creativity is a practice and how little design changes can completely change a viz✨
data viz can be such a subtle art. first draft of my graphic showing subway rider traffic at boston stations versus final draft
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i wish universities would stop calling these next steps "outcomes" as if our first job/graduate education determines the whole course of our lives. i also want to celebrate my friends without celebrating the elite institutions they will be part of. 3/n
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can't believe we're halfway through the fellowship! It's been such a supportive atmosphere to learn and grow...from connecting with other fellows to our division standups to getting to build something that people actually use!
Over 30 Civic Digital Fellows are spending their summer
@uscensusbureau
, which was our first-ever agency partner in 2017!
Read on to learn about their backgrounds and hear what they're excited for this summer:
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@DanielleAlberti
@nickicamberg
@axios
@nickicamberg
still can't believe you made this in
@Datawrapper
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you know life is great when the most appealing thing on your to do list is debugging a C lab assignment for your operating systems class 😓.
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Bolding specific bar chart labels: sometimes you want to emphasize certain groups in a chart.
𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠: in the table cells in the Check and Describe tab, use <b> tags around the labels you want to bold
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The creative outlet I didn't know I needed this semester: being a data columnist
@TheGazelleAD
so many ideas for next semester! excited for what's to come :)
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The game that broke our chart 🤯
@ollie
writes with so much clarity and wit about chess, my own interest in the game has increased.
Our chess advent calendar shall be updated Saturday and Sunday with games 7 and 8! Though it’s hard to imagine today’s game being topped
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some of my friends and i aren't sure where in the world we will be or what we will be doing come September but I know we will be okay. I'm just so proud of all of us and feel so privileged to know such a quality group of people that will create change wherever they go.
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different contexts but the same institutional problem--I'm reminded of Anushka's words in todays Gazelle article: "I sometimes feel like there’s a lot of space for me to say I’m not okay, but there isn’t space for me to actually not be okay."
her article:
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@DataVizSociety
Thank you so much to everyone who has shared their thoughts so far! This is super helpful.
just generally grateful for this community being generous in sharing their experiences and advice 💜
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Adding HTML to description: this was a
@ryanabest
discovery!
𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠: If you want to add a legend within the chart's description, you can just add HTML tags constructing the legend elements in the Description section of the Annotate tab.
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hi
#dataviz
friends in DC who want 2 free tickets to the
@infobeautyaward
ceremony tmrw! Check out this giveaway happening in the
@DataVizSociety
slack!
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I have the best team members who are v generous in sharing feedback. (Perhaps a bit too generous when it comes to their thoughts on colors <3)
Reminded of this podcast with Brené and Domee Shi about the importance of community in one’s creative practice!
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don't text, the iib showcase is out!
love discovering new dataviz creators to follow/be inspired by from this repository of projects
Announcing the longlist for the 2022
#IIBAwards
! Get inspired by over 1,000 entries in our showcase created by the global
#dataviz
community from 2019-2022!
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making a lollipop chart: while DW doesn't have lollipop charts, you can add the lines to the points in a Scatterplot.
𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠:use a prog lang/spreadsheet tool to concatenate strings using the data values as x,y positions and paste into the Add custom lines and areas section
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The story was about the decline in EV market share of the Nissan Leaf. After exploring the data, I wanted to convey both the Leaf’s rank and share of registrations. I showed my team two options:
(Line chart was made with DW + Rawgraphs → AI; bump chart was Rawgraphs → AI)
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Next round of edits:
-Set the green and yellow lines to 100% opacity
-Make annos more concise
-Direct label colors (instead of legend)
-Make the curvy anno more legible
Here’s the final desktop version!
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this was a scary chart to make
(net favorability data is from
@Civiqs
)
check out
@FiveThirtyEight
's reflections on the Jan. 6 insurrection:
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@SurastiPuri
@DataVizSociety
@marketcafemag
I just bought some books for my summer reading/rereading! 1. Data Feminism by
@laurenfklein
@kanarinka
2.
@datasketches
by
@NadiehBremer
and
@sxywu
3. Living in Data by
@blprnt
Any other recs are appreciated!
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@olyerickson
@visualisingdata
@FiveThirtyEight
you guessed it! ggplot2, D3.js, rawgraphs, datawrapper, and adobe illustrator are the tools I've been using the most :)
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three friends sticking around and doing research with incredible professors, one getting a SWE job at Twitter truly deserving it, another getting a competitive fellowship in uganda, a queen working at a cool women's health startup 2/n
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@YeroNiamadio
@YeroNiamadio
! hope you are doing well, thanks for the kind words <3 i use a range of tools...ggplot2 or D3.js or rawgraphs to make the viz...and then importing into Adobe Illustrator for the more design stuff. Also Datawrapper for things like line and bar charts and maps.
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As a senior, I hope that our pieces will pave the way for having more data-driven and interactive journalism featured in The Gazelle long after I graduate.
Feedback always welcome!
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Ana is such a thoughtful, creative human! from meeting in college during
@OutlierConf
to our rambles about creativity and postgrad existentialism, I’m excited to grow alongside her and witness all the amazing things she does and makes < 3
I’m officially coming out of my cave to celebrate and be grateful in this chaotic online space for being interviewed by the one and only
@simranparwani
for
@DataVizSociety
's Nightingale. Simran is simply the best, I am so lucky I connected so deeply with this amazing human.
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Perhaps some of these "tricks" are obvious and already part of your workflows, but as someone who started using DW in my current role, finding these little things helped me feel more ownership of my design decisions while using a tool like DW.
What DW tricks have you found?
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really helpful
@DemocracyDocket
explainer about moore v. harper which will be heard next scotus term
written by my brilliant friend
@caro_sull99
!
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This is a chart I struggled with, almost abandoning the idea twice. Much gratitude for my amazing coworkers for their validation/ valuable feedback. Especially Jacque who made the biggest cracks in the case!
Broad edits:
-make metric clearer
-try vertical
-fix text hierarchy
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Some key design decisions include:
-reducing the number of years shown
-using dotted lines to show when the song falls below top 50 (instead of just a gap in the step chart)
-adding the stream data as bubbles below the chart (rank shows relative popularity only)
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If anyone has any feedback for how to do process threads, please let me know! I remember a couple of years ago, as a senior in college, data visualization in journalism seemed so mysterious, so just trying to open up my process and reflect on design decisions. < 3
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When choosing the visualizations to build, while I prioritize user empathy and understanding, I've also been thinking about how I can use different visualizations (like this radial tree viz!) each piece to increase the data literacy of our community.
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i have the coolest friends! so proud of you
@jasenlo123
<3 from our confused, existential conversations in high school in hk to now finding our paths in dataviz after college, i'm grateful to have known you through so many seasons of life and to be understood.
As someone who identified as a “very humanities oriented person”, digital humanities was Jasen’s gateway into data journalism. Read about how our former intern
@jasenlo123
figured out his niche as a dev-journalist in our latest Humans of Konti interview.
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While I completely understand that entry fees are necessary for the sustainability of the organization and to pay people for their labor in holding these awards, I would love to see some entry fee waivers, especially at the student level, in future
#malofiej
competitions.
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@abmakulec
@OutlierConf
as an early career person, its been so surreal to share a space with so many people i admire in this field! ✨
from the speed chatting to the conversations on slack to our early career unconf today, i've loved meeting other humans and feeling less alone in my learning journey 🪴
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