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They are popular because they are popular, which is a circular argument that suits a pie chart. But there are some serious downsides to using the humble pie.
Communication is a two-way street.
Why modern science needs more Claude Monets.
Visualising climate change data in accessible ways can help convince audiences from all backgrounds about the urgency of the climate crisis.
After months of government decision-making based on data, is the public really ready to go it alone?
At first glance, Australia looks to be tracking poorly compared to the rest of the world. However, context is really important here.
There have been some shockingly bad graphs circulating during the pandemic.
Everyone would benefit from fewer slides, presented more slowly and with more detailed explanation of how the data has been processed.
Struggling to tell your daily infections from your cumulative counts, or a linear from a log scale? Here are a few pointers to help you master the deluge of data about the COVID-19 pandemic.
When mapping deprivation, using traditional boundaries can distort the data and distract readers from important information.
Sometimes photographic images are not able to capture and accurately represent science – especially at very tiny scales. This is where scientific visualisation comes in.
How do diverse movies fare in the international box office? What time do trolls like to post their comments? We look back on some of this year’s most intriguing graphs and maps.
A meteorologist and a music technologist team up to turn the data from tropical storms into musical graphs.
Catalog data are a library’s most important map to knowledge. What does it mean that
the Library of Congress just released 25 million records to the public?
The daunting complexity of biological data requires tailored visualisation tools to reveal buried insights.
Along with machine learning, data mining and statistics, visualisations are playing an important role in current-day data analytics.
Data are present in every aspect of our lives. Knowing how to present and visualise them in a creative and meaningful way can make a big difference.
Data journalism and visualisation can help ordinary citizens understand complex issues in their societies more deeply. And that drives democracy.
A look at how grant applications to Australia’s two largest science funding bodies have changed over the years.
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Professor of Geographic Information and Cartography, Department of Geography, UCL
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Professor of Creative Media Production and Chair, Department of Media, Arkansas State University
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Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Former postdoctoral researcher on machine learning applied to chemical engineering and currently science communicator for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), University of Tokyo
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Professor of Music Technology, Penn State
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Faculty Member at the Garvan Institute, Conjoint Professor at UNSW, and Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Director of Academic Program - Postgraduate ICT, Associate Professor in Visual Analytics, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Meteorology, Penn State
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Jalview Coordinator, Bioinformatician and Open Source Software Developer, University of Dundee
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Lead Copyright Officer, Librarian, University of Michigan
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Nanoartist and creative-practice based researcher in Media, Curtin University
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Lecturer in Computer Embedded Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Microbiology, RMIT University
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Professor of Statistics and Data Analytics, RMIT University