BI Over Beers

Category: Data Roles & People

  • Fighting Racism with Visualization

    Fighting Racism with Visualization

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    Wendy Gilbert
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    How do you confront something pervasive yet ignored or invisible till experienced? W.E.B. Du Bois is best known for his civil rights work and scholarship, but his pioneering data visualizations around race inequity are drawing more attention as visualization becomes a profession. His visualizations for the 1900 Exposition in Paris are stunningly artistic, minimalist, and…

  • Lady with the Lamp

    Lady with the Lamp

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    Shanon Bailey
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    Lately, I’ve been fascinated to learn about women data pioneers. Florence Nightingale was a nurse. But did you know she was also a statistician? In fact, she was the first female to be elected into the Royal Statistical Society. That’s really cool! Flo (as I call her for short) created a way to graphically represent…