Drawing on Paper is a weekly case study to visualize a topic. This week: Deforestation. Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the newsletter! — Courrier International The following graph was published in the “Atlas of global warming”, a supplement magazine of Courrier International (Oct-nov 2021).

Drawing on Paper is a weekly case study with focus on hands-on experience with datasets and visualizations. Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the newsletter! — The First Issue In his own newsletter this week, Philip Bump for The Washington Post took a look at one of his own graph regarding the shift of Hispanic voters between 2016 and 2020.

Data visualization as an art should strive for harmony. Here’s how award-winning information designer Federica Fragapane achieves it. — Do you know what makes a painting beautiful? We’ll talk about that, but first let me tell you a short story. A few years ago, I got interested in animation movies. I read about the history of the Walt Disney Company and learned how to draw figures, hands, feet, and…

Has the power of maps gotten out of control? — How long has it been since you stumbled upon a COVID-19 related map? I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s only been a few hours. As the World Health Organization stated, the COVID-19 outbreak has been accompanied by a massive infodemic. Thousands of coronavirus maps were produced and will continue on…

Visualization can transcend the limited grammar of numbers — Imagine being an abolitionist in 18th century England and encountering data of this type: Traders knew that many of the Africans would die on the voyage and would therefore pack as many people as possible on to their ships — in total there were 609 enslaved men, women and children…

Data labs may well be the corporate invention of the decade. With the unstoppable ascension of artificial intelligence and its nearest cousin machine learning, the words data scientist, deep learning, natural language processing and t-SNE visualizations are on the lips of every CEOs. — Well, maybe not the last one, though it looks so darn cool. Even if definitions sometimes differ, essentially the Datalab is the data startup of the company, able to go very fast, qualify the company data and develop machine learning projects. …