Writing & critiqueSample
Nightingale
Data Visualization Society
The journal of the Data Visualization Society, named after Florence Nightingale: essays, interviews and history from people who make charts.
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Writing & critique
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Data Visualization Society
Since
2019
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What you will find
- Essays on process, design and the profession
- Interviews with practitioners
- Pieces on the history of data visualization
- Print issues of the magazine
What we can learn from it
- 01How practitioners reason about audience and form, not only tools
- 02Many chart forms are older than they look: history is a source of ideas
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