Professor Cairo has a voracious appetite for reading and he thankfully likes to share books and articles. One article he included, Finding the Best Free Fonts for Numbers was an interesting read as I have a thing for type and fonts. I get picky and can spend probably too much time selecting a font that I […]
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Data Illustrator: What I Love and Hate
Early in the semester, Professor Cairo introduced us to Data Illustrator, an open source tool that was designed to create data visualizations and infographics without programming. My first graphic using Data Illustrator: This was for a class exercise. I used data already provided by Data Illustrator so I could get a feel for how to […]
Maps, Maps, Maps …
So … where do I start? I love maps! As strange as this may sound, I had forgotten how much I love them. It took an Intro to Data Visualization course to remind me or renew that spark and I’m so glad. Even with my love for maps, I never really studied them; looked closely […]
Two Data Visualizations about Women
So I can’t remember how I arrived at Scientific American and these two data visualizations but upon first impression, I really like them. Why? Both are about topics and issues about and related to women. I am a woman, therefore I am partial to stories about anything that could affect me or enlighten me about […]
Final Project: The Changing Landscape of HIV
I started work on my final project for Professor Cairo’s Intro to Visualization course. My topic: HIV. This was based on a story I read in The New York Times about how HIV has become most prevalent in the South, in rural areas, and among gay, male, people of color. I wanted to explore how […]
