[Visual Data Storytelling #29] You Have One New Message
Is audio a relevant medium to create knowledge? Is there a chance to turn every reader into a creator of audiobooks? What can we learn from the Bible app? These are some questions I will try to answer in this week's VDS newsletter.
[VDS Digest] Empower Your Charts With Accessibility Standards
Accessibility standards may be perceived as an extra step or a burden to web development or infoviz. However, it can and should be a first step to create both more engaging and better experiences for everyone.
[VDS] Causation, Simulations, Simpson's Paradox
This is the third installment of a reflection about games in humanistic data storytelling. It will focus on causal models and simulations.
[VDS Digest] How Indexed Charts Are Used to Tell Lies
The Economist published a bad chart; two pieces by two prominent information designers, who also turns out to be women; Also read about Climate Change, doctors in Gaza, or accessible visualizations in this week Visual Data Storytelling Digest.
[VDS Quest Chart] French Schools Amplify Inequalities. Play It Yourself.
In France, only 3 out of 10 poor kids go to college, against 7 out of 10 for rich kids. I use this proportion to continue the exploration of "quest charts"—interactive and humanistic data visualizations.
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[Visual Data Storytelling #29] You Have One New Message
Is audio a relevant medium to create knowledge? Is there a chance to turn every reader into a creator of audiobooks? What can we learn from the Bible app? These are some questions I will try to answer in this week's VDS newsletter.
[VDS Digest] How Indexed Charts Are Used to Tell Lies
The Economist published a bad chart; two pieces by two prominent information designers, who also turns out to be women; Also read about Climate Change, doctors in Gaza, or accessible visualizations in this week Visual Data Storytelling Digest.
My Life With Long Covid, by Giorgia Lupi
Giorgia Lupi is the voice of data humanism, and has been a vocal advocate of finding visual ways to display our "messy lives". After three years of long covid, she explores her journey through pain, medical bills, and hope, in this very personal visual essay for the New-York Times.