#Review: Edith Young’s #color Scheme Is the Whimsical #Data_Visualization Book We Need Right Now
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Color Scheme, An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture in Color Palettes is not your typical data visualization book. It may be due to..
#Review: Dataviz Gets Personal: Michelle Rial’s New Book, Maybe This Will Help, Feels Like a Hug From a Friend (With Charts!!)
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If there’s one thing that the last 18 months have shown us, it’s that we are all Going Through Some Stuff. Maybe that’s dealing with..
REVIEW: Mapping Affinities by Dario Rodighiero
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Influence has consequential implications. Consider Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger’s findings from his book, Contagious: “A word-of-mouth conversation by a new customer leads to an..
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#Review : Data Vis Book Club
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Historically, I’ve been great at buying #books to stage my shelves, but less good at reading them. In 2021, I’ve made a conscious effort to..
#Snowden in the Labyrinth, by Jonathan Lethem | The New York Review of Books
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Snowden’s book is straightforward, admirably so. He has taken the risk of assuming that his reader is interested not only in his “moment of vision” and the brazen act that earned his fame and notoriety, but also in the formation of his personality, and the slow growth of his understanding of technology, espionage, surveillance, and human rights. Despite his gifts at computer programming, he has no interest in persuading you that he’s unusual; quite the opposite.
Where is #Central_African_Republic ?
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The Central African Republic (CAR) is a country with lot of land, few people, and a little physical infrastructure, located within a cluster of states with a history of prolonged conflicts: Chad, Sudan South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. CAR has become shorthand for “failed postcolonial African state,” basically the prototype of a…
The fantastical texture of the everyday in E. C. Osondu’s novel: This House is Not for Sale
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The Nigerian fantasist, D.O. Fagunwa, didn’t think much of realist fiction. How difficult can it be to mirror life, he asks in a little known 1960 essay published in a.....