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Data Curious 2020.02.18 Hey, Do you remember pre-algebra class? Do you remember calculus, or trigonometry, or geometry? Did you hate it too? When I was in high school I detested mathematics. It was dry, boring, too abstract, in-accessible. I wanted to be a writer. I wanted
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Data Curious 2020.02.03 Hello, As we enter Black History Month, I'm thinking about how data visualization has been used to explore issues of race and oppression. One of the most striking examples I've seen was created by W.E.B. Dubois and his all-
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Data Curious 2020.01.27 Hey, Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending an art gallery of data visualizations curated by a friend. Even though I stare at data viz nearly every day, seeing these pieces printed out and hung in a gallery reminded me of the artistic nature
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Data Curious 2020.01.13 Happy 2020, Data Curious is back! And now with a new look and feel. I've decided to simplify the newsletter and bring it back to the bare essentials. You'll also notice there are a few pictures now in addition to words.
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data / curious 2019.12.23 Greetings, Despite my disbelief, we are here: the end of 2019. This will be my last edition of Data Curious for the year as I take some time to unplug and reflect on the year to come. Somehow, I have managed to send out this
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data / curious 2019.12.11 Hey, November was a bear of a month, and here we are hurtling towards Christmas again. I just finished the #Codevember challenge yesterday and let me tell you: not for the faint of heart (retrospective coming, at some point). Now that my daily coding challenge
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data / curious 2019.11.25 Greetings, I'm back with some links for the week. I'll be taking next week off to catch up after Thanksgiving. Enjoy! Ben Read_ How can I enrich my visualization through adding audio? Uber released a very interesting demo of their new
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data / curious 2019.11.18 Hey, Have you heard of Multiple Views? I've shared links to their articles many times, but let me make an introduction: Multiple Views is a Medium publication sharing the latest in data and information visualization research. It's a fantastic resource for
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data / curious 2019.11.11 Greetings web friends, Confession: I missed last week's Data Curious. Reason: life gets crazy (also, I'm doing #codevember this year which is a huge time-suck). Pledge: I'm still here and will write this newsletter (most weeks). Addendum: I
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data / curious 2019.10.22 Hey, Another week, another email with links to interesting data-and-viz-things. This week I'm especially digging the article by Interactions Labs on the difference between data viz and interaction design. Don't miss it! See ya next week, Ben Read_
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data / curious 2019.10.22 Hey newsletter receivers, I'm back! And therefore doing the inevitable catch-up-after-vacation-frenzy. So this one is short (but still interesting, I promise!). Enjoy! Read_ How can I craft a better story using data viz? Duncan Geere has a new take
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data / curious 2019.10.07 We live in a fast-paced world. We live in a fearful world. Sometimes, it's good to remind ourselves that things can get better. That we can be better. This pattern of progress is all around us. But most of the time, it