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…
I’ll start off with a confession — when I was a kid, I had no idea what data visualization was. Or, should I be totally frank? Growing up, I didn’t even know the meaning of “data.” It wasn’t until my early teens that I started understanding the meaning and value of “data.” After that, it…
While storytelling can take on many forms and span several disciplines, the techniques and methods we use to tell good stories are fairly similar. Understanding those similarities and what makes a particular story effective on a particular medium can help us become better storytellers. There are certain tricks to improv comedy, for example, that can help…