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TL;DR The New York Times data team wins Malofiej honors by combining rigorous sourcing, scrollytelling, and design discipline. The article distills ten lessons from NYT visual journalism: context, mobile-first layout, annotation, and ethical chart choices. Why it matters: More than 1,500 entries competed at Malofiej 20 for top infographic awards. Case in point: NYT pieces […]

If you are looking for reliable information for your data visualization process, you should consider open data sources. It means that all kind of datasets are available on the internet and you can access, reuse or even share them, depending on your own purposes. Here we explain more about the concept and list 40 websites.

What data visualization best practices your company can rely on to deliver information? Find out the best graphs and charts for each challenge.

Transit maps like the London Underground “Tube” diagram or the New York subway map are an integral part of life in cities with public transportation. Their bright colors, large type and simplified route lines allow complex travel information to be quickly and easily understood by commuters and tourists alike. Recently, the subway map has also […]

Visualizations can be very good at helping us spot patterns in data. Often, these patterns are periodic; most often repeating in time (although periodic patterns can also appear in spatial and other data dimensions). On the day of the year that messes with our calendar’s periodicity, it seems appropriate to go over four visualization techniques […]

Knowing the benefits of data visualization helps you to understand how this strategy can be useful to your company. Given that, keep reading and find out what they are.

Scale is a simple concept. From a very early age, children know about big and small, heavy and light, more and less. Extreme scales, however, are another story. Try to imagine, for example, the size of the universe… or $1 trillion made up entirely of dollar bills. Exactly. Grasping the actual quantities involved in extreme […]

TL;DR Data visualization ethics mirror journalism: reliable sources, transparent analysis, and honest design. Visual.ly outlines three stages (collection, analysis, design) plus a Hippocratic-style oath against misleading charts. Why it matters: Viewers cannot see your analysis steps, so trust depends on declared methods. How it works: Document assumptions, cite sources with dates, and annotate truncated axes. […]

Even if you think you don’t know what a choropleth map is, chances are you’ve seen one. And come November 2012, you’ll see plenty: one iconic example of a choropleth map is a map of the United States, laid out in red and blue, showing the results of a presidential election.