Happy Pi Day, 2021! March 14th, or 3.14 in the month.day format, is Pi Day because the first digits of the number π (pi) are 3.14(15926...). Of course pi is intimately connected to the circle, as it's the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. And of course we all know that [...]
The following International Women's Day guest blog post was written by Inna Saboshchuk, PhD. Inna is a senior data product manager in the retail industry in NYC. She previously worked as a data scientist for a SaaS company which uses AI to automate and optimize retail processes. Additionally she taught psychology courses at [...]
Anthony Starks on Recreating Du Bois’s Iconic Style By Allen Hillery Allen would like to acknowledge Anthony Starks for his expert assistance with this article. Earlier this month, Sekou Tyler, Anthony Starks and I thought it was important to recognize the accomplishments of W.E.B. Du Bois. Du Bois’ sophisticated quantitative research leveraging data visualization, [...]
The "16 Chart Reading Tips" Checklist Have you ever had that experience where you came across a confusing chart and you just didn't know where to start? This checklist was designed to help people in that exact situation. It's derived from the recent Amazon #1 New Release by Data Literacy Press, Learning to See [...]
This guest blog post has been written by Sarah Nell-Rodriguez, a globally recognized industry expert in software education and Data Literacy, and founder of the recently launched Be Data Lit online community site. Sarah would like to acknowledge Allen Hillery for his expert assistance with this article. The header image above with the tagline [...]
How W.E.B Du Bois Used Data Visualization to Debunk Social Darwinism and Tell A Story of Resilience Editor's note: A version of the following article by Allen Hillery also appears on the Nightingale blog of the Data Visualization Society here. For other articles written by Mr. Hillery, see his Medium page. William Edward Burghardt Du [...]
Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Data Literacy Awards! A year ago, we announced the winners of the inaugural 2019 Data Literacy Awards, and we're excited to announce the winners of this year. The public nominated and voted for the winners of 5 different categories: 1) Most Insightful Data Book, 2) Most Helpful [...]
Jon Schwabish's "One Chart at a Time" Series Jon Schwabish, host of the Policy Viz podcast and author of Better Presentations as well as the forthcoming Better Data Visualizations, has started 2021 with a video series called "One Chart at a Time". In this series, Jon is inviting guest speakers [...]
Data Literacy Level 1 is Now Available On-Demand! We're excited to announce today that, following the success of our popular Data Literacy Fundamentals On-Demand course, our next course in the series, Data Literacy Level 1: Learning to See Data, is now available to take on-demand as [...]