DREAM PLAN PLAY
Content and Curation From Susan Kistler
Data Visualization PLN
Your professional learning network (PLN) or professional learning community (PLC) is the aggregation of the sources you turn to for professional learning and guidance. Here are the sources in my dataviz PLN.
Evergreen writes on dataviz and reporting from an evaluation background - Works in Excel, cognition-based, extremely readable
Cairo draws on his journalism background to balance form and function for dataviz - examples are information-rich data graphics
Hailing from business, Few crafts and critiques dataviz innovations - research-based, thought-provoking, bit cantankerous
Rosling is the most compelling presenter of the bunch, hailing from public health, striving to change public opinion - known for motion bubble charts
Tufte is the godfather of modern data visualizataion, his writings form the basis of many modern critiques - advocates for simplicity, rails against chart junk
With his focus on graphic design, McCandless loves the beauty of data visualization, eschewing simplicity at times for aesthetics