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Dieuwertje van Dijk - Data Visualization Designer

Dieuwertje van Dijk - Data Visualization Designer

Data, graphic design, illustration, food and mountains let her dopamine neurons spark on a daily basis. Most of the year she lives in Georgia where she spends her free time enjoying nature in a rooftop tent, eating khinkali and drinking wine.

Do you speak dataviz?

Are you a newcomer to the data visualization world? Or are you struggling with some terms in data...

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Do you speak data?

Are you interested in telling data stories with data visualizations? But your data language can...

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A deep dive into... scatter plots

When I think about scatter plots, my mind takes me back to the years when I studied and worked as...

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Master the rules - then break them

Rules are everywhere. In modern society, you can not go anywhere without rules to follow. Imagine...

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A guide to effective data visualization

The total amount of data in the world is increasing extremely fast. It is forecasted that the...

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The survival rates of chess pieces in a divergent visualization

Recently I wrote a ‘deep dive’ blog post about bar charts. The bar chart is used often because of...

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A deep dive into... bar charts

Bar charts and pencils: what do they have in common? When writing this blog, I really don’t know...

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9 types of data visualization

When somebody asks me about my profession and I tell them that I’m a data visualization designer,...

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Mind your data visualization

If I am to believe my mom, I was already pasting stickers next to each other in a neat pattern...

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A deep dive into... treemaps

“Your disk is almost full. Save space by optimizing storage”. Does this sound familiar? Well, for...

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