Where Data Visualization Practitioners and Enthusiasts Connect.
DVS is a volunteer-run 501c3 nonprofit with three key objectives: celebrate, nurture, and advance the field of data visualization.


Week of July 28, 2025
🎥 The Outlier 2025 talk recordings are now live on YouTube! Dive into 26 sessions—from data viz style guide best practices to automating contextual annotations—and discover how we're reimagining data viz.
New to read
New to Read
Leveraging Popular Board Games to Teach Data Visualization Through Play by Lorenzo Amabili, Eduard Gröller & Renata G. Raidou
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A member is looking for help choosing colors to match emotions. They’re working on a project with six emotions: joyful, peaceful, powerful, sad, mad, and scared. They want to assign one of these colors to each emotion: yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, and green. They’ve created a draft palette shown in the second image but are open to suggestions. How would you match the colors with the emotions?
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