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@chezVoila
Voilà: revealing information design. We combine analysis and design to convey complex information visually. We care about sustainable development. Since 2013.
Ken Tancrous Ⓥ 🌱 1 subscribed
May 15, 2022 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Again with the dots per death…

Enough with the data visualization to connect us to the horrors of COVID.

We need to understand the limits of dataviz as a language. First, this map doesn’t say pandemic one bit. It’s mostly a population map and could represent cable TV subscribers.

What does it say when your chart on the front page to represent such a tragedy looks so… generic?
May 12, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
📣NEW JOB OPENING AT VOILÀ:📌

We're looking to add a third information designer to our team (in Montreal, in English and French).

(Please circulate!)

chezvoila.com/job/informatio… If you like dataviz, clear design, if you are a visual thinker.

If you embrace complexity and like to clarify more than simplify.

This may be for you. Left-to-right axis with tas...
Feb 21, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
The more I think about today’s front page of the New York Times, the more it is for me another watershed moment for data visualization. But not for good reasons.

This graph is confronting us with the limitations of data visualization to convey tragedies. Tragedies like COVID-19 deaths happen at the individual level. To their relatives, friends and coworkers, each victim is a full person. To a chart, they are a dot.