Book Review: Data Visualization Handbook,by Juuso Koponen and Jonatan Hildén
Data Visualization Handbook (2019), by Juuso Koponen and Jonatan Hildén, two Finnish academic authors, is a refreshing and welcome addition
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Doug Caldwell
- Jan 20
- 6 min
Book Review: Storytelling with You: Plan, Create, and Deliver a Stellar Presentation, by Cole Nussba
Knaflic deconstructs presentations into three easy-to-remember phases: Plan, Create, and Deliver. She covers the complete presentation proce
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Doug Caldwell
- Nov 4, 2022
- 5 min
Book Review: How to Lie with Maps, by Mark Monmonier
Not only is it easy to lie with maps. It’s essential. To portray meaningful relationships for a complex, three-dimensional world on a...
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Doug Caldwell
- Jan 24, 2022
- 5 min
Book Review: How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, by Alberto Cairo
Instead of just looking at charts, as if they were mere illustrations, we must learn to read them and interpret them correctly. Alberto...
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Doug Caldwell
- Nov 24, 2021
- 4 min
Book Review: How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff
If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows...
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Doug Caldwell
- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
Book Review: The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics, by Tim Harford
Good statistics are like a telescope for an astronomer, a microscope for a bacteriologist, or an X-ray for a radiologist. If we are...
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Abigail Cox
- Aug 12, 2021
- 2 min
Housing Data Project
We recently released a final report, prepared by Allen Lang and Frances Astorian, from a Housing Data Project analyzing the change in...
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Doug Caldwell
- Apr 20, 2021
- 5 min
Book Review: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez
One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the...
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Doug Caldwell
- Mar 16, 2021
- 4 min
Book Review: Better Data Visualizations, by Jonathan Schwabish
Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks (2021), by Jonathan Schwabish (Senior Fellow at the Urban...
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Abigail Cox
- Jun 12, 2020
- 3 min
UVA School of Data Science Capstone: Deployment of a LoRaWAN-Based IoT Air Quality Sensor Network
For the last academic year, we worked with researchers from the University of Virginia to use the Internet of Things in examining air...
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