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What Data Leaders Are Reading This Summer

What Data Leaders Are Reading This Summer

The words “summer reading” may trigger flashbacks of racing to finish your high school booklist during the last two days of vacation. But reading during summer, especially on...

Communicating With Maps - The Art Of Cartography - Mapscaping.com

Communicating With Maps - The Art Of Cartography - Mapscaping.com

John Nelson is a Product Engineer at Esri. You may better know him for doing outstanding stuff as a cartographer and a user experience designer. His background is geography,...

Is it a bug or a feature? - Datawrapper Blog

Is it a bug or a feature? - Datawrapper Blog

Recently, I read a few books about software development that I found in our library here in the Berlin office. One statement in Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering...

Breaking down the results of a question by a check-all-that-apply question - Data Revelations

Breaking down the results of a question by a check-all-that-apply question - Data Revelations

Breaking down the results of a question by a check-all-that-apply question A big thanks to Josh Wilson for encouraging me to write about this and an extra big thanks to...

Mission Accomplished: Photos from Dawn's Challenger Deep Expedition

Mission Accomplished: Photos from Dawn's Challenger Deep Expedition

On July 12, Esri Chief Scientist Dawn Wright made history as she dove to the deepest place on Earth, Challenger Deep. Her mission? To use high-resolution sonar to map a part of...

Experimenting Can Lead to Great Dataviz, Nightingale

Experimenting Can Lead to Great Dataviz, Nightingale

Some may have the idea that creating an amazing data visualization requires the stars to align. But the truth is, as with any other skill, you need practice and real-life...

Data Horror Stories - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Data Horror Stories - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Working for data teams unavoidably creates horror stories that crystalize themselves in the brains of those who have experienced them. Terrible bosses who don’t understand...

Hillshade effects | Dr. Dominic Royé

Hillshade effects | Dr. Dominic Royé

Dr. Dominic Royé 2022-07-20 8 min read gis , R , R:intermediate , visualization It is very common to see relief maps with shadow effects, also known as ‘hillshade’, which...

How to choose an interpolation for your color scale - Datawrapper Blog

How to choose an interpolation for your color scale - Datawrapper Blog

Which interpolation you choose for your color scale has a massive impact on how the data is perceived, how well your statement is communicated, and how intuitively the reader...

Bring your text to life with our “Text annotator” template

Bring your text to life with our “Text annotator” template

Ah, the memories of being a student and diligently highlighting key phrases and scribbling notes into the page margin of a handout or textbook. Annotating a text with colors and...

Large Image Datasets Today Are a Mess - Gradient Flow

Large Image Datasets Today Are a Mess - Gradient Flow

Visual data management systems are lacking in all aspects: storage, quality (deduplication, anomaly detection), search, analytics and visualization. As a consequence, companies...

Digital Transformation - exploring new ways to connect through the arts

Digital Transformation - exploring new ways to connect through the arts

On July 18, 2022 Knight Foundation announced the launch of Knight New Work 2022, an open call for the creation of new works that leverage technology to create art and enhance...