Book Review: “People and Data: Uniting to Transform Your Business”
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Thomas C. Redman’s book provides strategic advice to corporate leadership about how to engage all workers in the data process.
#Review: Drawing Data with Kids
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The #book “Drawing Data with Kids” makes #Data_Visualization accessible, low-tech, and something the whole family can do—no screens required.
An #interview with Jordan Morrow, Author of “Be Data Analytical”
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In his latest book, Morrow explores how data can influence decision making. Here’s a peek at what’s inside—plus, a Q&A with the author.
#Outlier 2023: Changing the World, One Chart at a Time
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DVS’s 2023 Outlier Conference was held in Porto, Portugal, and virtually in early May. Here’s what a few attendees say about the experience.
Review: Making With Data, a Fascinating Dive Into The World of Physical Data Designs
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The book explores the world of tactile and hand-made data exhibits. It showcases inspiring physicalization projects and offers tips and tools to try your own.
#Review: Visit a Local #museum for Dataviz Inspiration
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In early September, I had a super fun time at a Meetup with the Denver Data Storytellers at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science! The..
REVIEW: Questions in Dataviz by Neil Richards
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I was excited to read and review Questions in Dataviz by Neil Richards, because I love the idea of #Data_Visualization design driven by questions...
#IEEE_VIS_2022 Highlights
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IEEE VIS 2022 happened between October 16th and 22nd in Oklahoma City and I was really happy to have been able to attend in person...
#Review: Functional Aesthetics for #Data_Visualization by Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley
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The multi-disciplinary nature of the data visualization profession presents opportunities for fruitful collaboration while also leading to points of tension. One such source of tension..
Behind the Scenes of “The Future of #Data_Science”: An Interview with Ciera Martinez
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A few months ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ciera Martinez to discuss the founding of the project, Data Science by #Design,..
#Review: Be Data Driven by Jordan Morrow
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Following up on his first #book, which considered data from the individual level, Jordan Morrow’s Be Data Driven looks at harnessing the power of data..
“In the end, all #Data_Visualization ends up with a conversation” — A Joint Review of Eyeo 2022
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The Eyeo festival has always held an interesting place in the community as, I’m told, it never really focused on any specific subject matter. At..
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What a Book Published in the 80s Taught Me about #Data_Visualization
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I was on holiday recently in the Welsh border town of Hay on Wye, when I came across a book that instantly caught my attention...
REVIEW: Dr. Selena Fisk’s I’m Not a Numbers Person
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When I came across I’m not a numbers person and learned about Dr. Selena Fisk, I knew that I would be interested in reading the..
REVIEW: Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
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The art of fandom is to observe and infer. This is especially true in cinema as the cult of the auteur director fuels our reverence..
REVIEW: How Can We Use #comics to Tell Data Stories?
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This post is a review of From Data to Stories, a book from Richie Lionell and Ramya Mylavarapu of Gramener, described on its front page..
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REVIEW: Detroit in 50 #Maps by Alex B. Hill
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In professional and #Community circles, Detroit can sometimes feel like a small town. I started hearing about Alex B. Hill and his site, Detroitography, early..
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(Re)Constructing Inequality : Community Development in Public and Private
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Claire Dunning #Reviews Jeremy R. Levine’s new book, Constructing Community, an ethnographic study of community development projects in #Boston. For a book about #urban_poverty and #redevelopment, Constructing Community recounts few protests or headline-grabbing incidents. Instead, the drama unfolds slowly over the course of a decade in poorly lit community rooms, downtown board rooms, and the backseats of cars. This is a book about the banalities of bureaucracy and #governance—a fact that author Reviews
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REVIEW: Diaries of the #Evergreen_Data_Academy
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I first heard of Stephanie Evergreen in 2012 when I finished my graduate studies and moved to Atlanta, GA. Our company was bringing her in..
REVIEW: Evergreen Data Academy
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Two years ago, I didn’t even know that #Data_Visualization was a thing. I had just started a new job where I was asked to..
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#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-south-africa
The cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire. Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]
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#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-cape-town
The cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire. Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]
#CULTURE #Books #Cape_Town #gang_culture #Literature #police #reviews
Gang Town’s focus on Cape Town’s longue durée corruption of the social fabric of working class communities (…) sketches a city that has repeatedly deformed and destroyed social institutions that would otherwise channel the natural rebellions of young people away from gangs, drug abuse and violence. In a particularly insightful passage Pinnocks describes how forced removals under the Group Areas Act ripped up “networks of streets, houses, corner shops and shebeens, but also social webs of kin, friendship
Inheritances of our fathers
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/inheritances-of-our-fathers
There’s #History, with a capital ‘H’ – the one you find written up, memorized and recited as facts, dates, inaugurations, wars, victims and statistics. And then there is the one in small caps – the history that gets under your skin: when great political systems are embodied in the tiny details of everyday life; when […]
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#Africa : Why Western Economists Get It Wrong
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/09/africa-why-western-economists-get-it-wrong
Development #economics as a field of study was formally launched in the 1950s by the Afro-Caribbean economist Arthur Lewis who, out of necessity, wanted to understand how his own country, Saint Lucia, could transform from an agro-based economy into a modern industrial state (later, in 1979, Lewis was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics […]
Getting beyond the usual South African reporting on “Africa”
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It is still not uncommon to hear South Africans say that they’re going on a business trip or holiday “in #Africa” – as if their own country lies on another continent. We could blame this attitude on our history. During Apartheid, #South_Africa was politically and socially isolated from the rest of the continent (South […]
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