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Same Chart, Many Titles: A Classroom Exercise in Framing Data

November 6, 2026

On New Year’s Eve 2016, two large posters appeared on walls around Brooklyn. One showed a New York Times front page marked up in…

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Baking Brilliance: My DVS Mentee Experience

November 2, 2026

I signed up as a mentee for my first-ever Data Visualization Society (DVS) mentorship program this year and immersed myself in 10 weeks of…

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Capturing No-Tech AI Mental Models with Craft Supplies: An AI Literacy Workshop

October 28, 2026

If someone were to ask you to think about artificial intelligence (AI), what comes to mind? A robot? A brain or circuit icon? Maybe…

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An Ikat Narrative of Railway Workforce Mobility

October 23, 2026

We often overlook what is most visible not because it requires no attention, but because familiarity blinds us to what is right in front…

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It Took a Village to Redesign the DVS Website

October 21, 2026

You may have noticed that the DVS website has a new look. We recently redesigned it with improved navigation and resources for data viz…

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Dark Background Is the Future of Dashboards

October 12, 2026

There is one ongoing data visualization debate where the best-practice answer has not yet been settled: the question of dark mode dashboards, those that…

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Tiny Charts: Data Viz as Postage Stamp Art

October 6, 2026

Today’s mail, with a sprinkle of charts It all started with an obscure book about mathematically themed postage stamps. A page titled “Statistics” showcased…

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Direct the Future of DVS as a Board Member—Apply by Oct 30

October 2, 2026

Applications for half of the seats on our 12-person board are now open for applications for two-year terms that span from 2027 to 2028.…

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À sa place: When Beauty Hides the Message

September 30, 2026

How the failure of a political data viz to circulate forced me to revisit the data it claimed to defend On February 11, 2025,…

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Implicit Price Discrimination: The Netflix Index

September 24, 2026

Netflix is cheaper in poorer countries—but cheap enough? Netflix prices vary widely by country. A Standard subscription costs around $29 in Switzerland, about $7…