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Dashboards for 10-Year-Olds: Connecting Data to Students’ Lived Experience

Oct 12th, 2021 / Data Visualization

Bob Coulter is the director of the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center, a 38-acre field site in suburban St. Louis. He’s also a Depict Data Studio student and when he shared his work in our graduation ceremony, I knew it needed to be showcased. Keep up the great work Bob!

#DayDohViz: Play-Doh as a Tool for Data Visualization

Jul 10th, 2018 / Data Visualization

Guest blogger Amy Cesal shares all the ways she used Play-Doh to approach data visualization as a way to participate in The 100 Day Project, a creativity project that requires making one thing, every day for 100 days.

Span Charts: When You’ve Only Got the Min and Max

Oct 29th, 2014 / Data Visualization

A few months ago I received a copy of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. An article about nonprofit CEO salaries caught my eye because rather than displaying a mean or median, it displayed a range. A range! What a challenge. I had to figure out how to best visualize that range.