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Editors’ Choice: We Taught Students to Read Graphs, but We Forgot to Teach Them to Question Themselves

Editors’ Summary: This article shares a mathematics professor’s experience in teaching students how to read graphs. The article discusses important topics like motivated skepticism that, although this article applies them to students’ interpretation of graphs and graph literacy, are applicable to digital literacy, too. The author presents a pedagogical question regarding how, despite us knowing […]

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Editors’ Choice: Building Tableau Dashboards for the PowerPoint Download

Editors’ Summary: This article engages with the transition between a dynamic (or dynamic-esque) software, like Tableau, to a more static presentation format, like PowerPoint. However, some of the philosophies mentioned here are transferrable to various types of presentations beyond Tableau and PowerPoint that we are familiar with in DH, including poster design and static website […]

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Editors’ Choice: Data Visualization & Affective Computing. Design That Manipulates Emotions or Design That Helps Reflect on Emotions?

Emotions are complex. They are not feelings nor are they desires. I’ll define emotions as a biopsychological process that happens inside the body and is an information-processing tool. I heard emotions being opposed to rationality—by some coincidence, pretty often in a sexist logic. But it’s quite the opposite, and emotions matter in effective decision-making. The […]

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Editors’ Choice: Datafying Mixed Social Identities: Nonbinarity as the Complementary of Intersectionality

Capturing mixed social identities through categorical data presents significant challenges. Nonbinarity provides a conceptual, computational, and visual framework for reimagining social identities beyond binary oppositions. When applied beyond gender to domains such as language, culture, or ethnicity, nonbinarity reveals the complex and sometimes contradictory ways individuals experience social belonging. In this way, it complements intersectionality […]

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Introducing POLLEN!

CHANNELS CHANNELS EVERYWHERE When I joined the DVS in February of 2019, the amount of activity on DVS’s Slack was thrilling! I met incredible friends, shared various dataviz projects, learned A LOT and fanboyed/fangirled over some of my favourite data visualization practitioners. In fact, I got so inspired by our vibrant Slack community that I […]

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Editors’ Choice: Putting Three Meals on the Table

Visualizing Indian curries and sabzis to help your family cook healthier. At Gramener, we each took up a personal data challenge over the month of December. Since my family at home had been fighting over how to share efforts in the kitchen, I chose to track the food we cooked at home across three meals […]