Featured Articles

I Learned Data Vis in a Year, and You Can Too
March 24, 2020
Nightingale Article
How I went from making simple charts to running workshops, and what I learned along the way.
What Data Vis Experts Wish They Knew When They First Started
June 25, 2020
Nightingale Article
Eight accomplished data visualisation designers share their hard-earned wisdom.
Public Speaking Can Help You Design Better Visualisations
August 24, 2020
Nightingale Article
Nine foundational principles from speechmaking that will help you see data visualisation in a new light.

Recent Posts

Three Design Principles for More Effective Dashboards
November 3, 2020
In my experience, a few simple concepts can make or break a dashboard: clarity, consistency and context. In this article, I look at each of them in more detail.
The Design Process: Ludovico Einaudi Streaming Visual
October 17, 2020
How much time did I spend listening to Ludovico Einaudi last year? The design process of my very first chart made completely in D3.js.
The Design Process: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
September 16, 2020
A post on the design decisions for a visualisation that will land in a book (Big Data Visualisation: Recent Developments and Challenges by CRC Press, 2021).