Insight

Dataviz wins a Pulitzer Prize

We’re ending this quarter with a bang and several reasons to celebrate. First, we won a Webby Award for the American Opportunity Index. Second, we’ve just launched our third pod, Healthcare, which joins EdTech and Sustainability. I’ll share more details in the coming months with opportunities to work with us in Healthcare.

Here are our new themes for the months of July to September:

• Social justice: How visual data can help spark social change by addressing injustice, closing equality gaps, and making sure no one is left behind.
• Learning analytics: How visual data can be used to improve the way people learn, whether they’re internal colleagues or external clients/customers.
• Data portals: How data portals (known more widely as data dashboards) effectively put the user in control through intuitive interfaces.
• The craft of dataviz: What’s your day-to-day like? What are the key processes you’ve developed to optimise your workflow? How do you gain inspiration in your work?

All our writers are compensated for writing about dataviz on our blog. Pitch me your article ideas related to the above themes by sending an email to [email protected]. We only have limited slots, so submit your ideas before they’re filled up! And be sure to review our writing guidelines first, you can read some published examples down below.

What’s Happening in Data Viz

• Dataviz wins a Pulitzer Prize: A huge breakthrough for dataviz as Mona Chalabi wins the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category.
• Salesforce launches Tableau Pulse and Tableau GPT: Everything is getting more and more GPT-ified, even dataviz tools. Salesforce promises these new features will ‘automate data analysis, anticipate user needs and automatically generate actionable insights’.
• Was it a new day for data? A critical take on the Tableau Conference that just wrapped.
• Apple’s first official Figma design kit: A huge library of resources to help you design for the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. This is especially helpful if you design dataviz embedded in new apps.

Upcoming Events

• Config (June 21-22): Figma’s global design conference, live from San Francisco.
• Visualizing Knowledge 2023 (June 16): Exploring how to visualise the complexity of the world. In-person in Finland (with option to livestream).

Learning resources

• Dataviz Consulting Tips Helpful Twitter thread on how to get started in dataviz consulting by Amanda Makulec.
• Tables Aren’t Boring, You Are A very nice refresher on how to make tables easier to read and use, by Autumn Battani.
• Color Accessibility Tools Brief review of web content accessibility guidelines with helpful resources, by Sarah Bartlett.
• JavaScript with Data, Dissected Short how-to guide that covers an array of objects and functions, by Allison Horst.
• Advanced Data Visualization Free educational series from Observable, taught by Robert Kosara.
• Dashboard Design Tips: Creative Ways to Use Images Presented by Kevin Wee, this is the most watched video (so far) from Tableau Conference 2023.