Building Data Trust Why Trust in Data Sometimes Erodes and How to Prevent it from Eroding in the First Place The following guest blog post was written by Jodi Pafford. Jodi is a data analyst, visualizer, and insight sleuth who is [...]
The Difference Between “Prevalence” and “Incidence” and Why We Care Have you heard the terms “prevalence” and “incidence” in the news lately? What’s the difference between them and why does it matter? TL;DR Prevalence: Number of people in a population who have a disease or other health outcome at one point in [...]
Handmade in Punjab: embroidered data in phulkaris The following Women's History Month guest blog post was written by Sana Ahmed Wilder. Sana is a data visualizer specializing in building capacity of federal and state education agencies. She analyzes and communicates student data using modern visualization and storytelling techniques. Sana lives in [...]
Pivot Into a Data Career: How My Journey Can Help You Start Yours Alli Torban is a contributor to Data Literacy LLC. She’s an Information Design Consultant based in Washington, D.C. and hosts the podcast Data Viz Today. Alli specializes in designing data visualizations for industry experts to help get their work seen [...]
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 [...]