In this monthly series, I share a combination of cool data visualizations, useful tools and resources, and other visualization miscellany. The field of data visualization is full of experts who publish insights in books and on blogs, and I’ll be using this series to introduce you to a few of them. You can find previous posts by looking at the Exploring Data Visualization tag.
Welcome back to this blog series! Here are some of the things I read in March:
From The New York Times, “Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys”
1) The New York Times took data from a recent study about income inequality and designed a variety of compelling data visualizations. The article text and the visualizations complement each other to convey the pervasive insidiousness of racism, especially for black boys.
From Elijah Meeks, “Color Advice for Data Visualization with D3.js”
2) D3.js is an open JavaScript library that you can use to visualize data. A data visualization engineer at Netflix (what an interesting job!), Elijah Meeks provides some great advice when picking your colors in D3. More importantly, these tips are helpful no matter what visualization tool you use.
From Mikhail Popov, “Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters”
3) Want to learn some data visualization basics? Mikhail Popov from Wikimedia conducted a data visualization literacy workshop for Wikimedia Foundation’s All Hands 2018 staff conference, and he made the entire workshop available online.
I hope you enjoyed this data visualization news! If you have any data visualization questions, please feel free to email me and set up an appointment at the Scholarly Commons.
