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Mapping Change: How One Design Studio Navigated 20 Years at the Forefront of a Changing Industry

November 17, 2025

Applied Works is a London-based design studio celebrating their 20th anniversary. I sat down recently with founders Joe Sharpe and Paul Kettle to discuss…

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Data Visualization & Affective Computing. Design That Manipulates Emotions or Design That Helps Reflect on Emotions?

November 6, 2025

What are emotions and how design is connected Emotions are complex. They are not feelings nor are they desires. I’ll define emotions as a…

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From Pixels to Parks: The Intersection of Data Visualisation and Urban Greening

November 4, 2025

Italian designer, Bruno Munari, famously argued that “Art shall not be separated from life: things that are good to look at, and bad to…

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LA on the Move: Data Vandals Bring Wildlife and Humans Together at Union Station

October 27, 2025

The relationship between nature and the city is often framed as a tension – wilderness versus concrete, animals versus humans. But what if we…

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Exploring Data Detective Practices as a Class Activity

October 24, 2025

We reflect on our experiences arising from a recent computer science graduate class about data feminism, during which we explored the idea of being…

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Breaking Stereotypes in Women’s Football

October 14, 2025

It was 2015, a year that has been etched into my memory. Barcelona had just conquered football, sweeping La Liga, the Copa del Rey,…

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Datavis as a Community Experience: How to (Not) Create a Datavis in a Group

October 8, 2025

Do you know individuals who seem to focus on one thing for their whole life? I’m on the opposite side of the scale. Inspired…

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Apply to join the DVS Board

September 25, 2025

Applications for half of the seats on our 12-person board are now open for two-year terms that span from 2026 to 2027. Read more…

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Behind the Scenes: Dashboards That Deliver

September 23, 2025

Andy Cotgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler have a new book coming out on September 23, 2025—Dashboards That Deliver: How to Design,…

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Review: Dashboards That Deliver

September 22, 2025

Dashboards That Deliver: How to Design, Develop, and Deploy Dashboards That Work, the upcoming book by Andy Cotgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve…

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