Write for Nightingale. Everything you need to get started
By: Jason Forrest
Tags: Design, Data Visualization, Dvsintro, Data, Writing

Write for Nightingale

Everything you need to get started

Nightingale is the journal of the Data Visualization Society (DVS). We bring you high-quality articles covering many of the applications of data visualization — including education, entertainment, history, sports, best practices, new techniques, and any other aspect or implementation of visual information design we find compelling. We’ll host interviews with thought leaders and interesting people from the Data Visualization Society community and beyond. Like adventurers, we want to explore the unexplored, to look to the past and dream of the future.

We always intended for the DVS Medium publication to share the incredible wealth of knowledge from our community. By partnering with Medium, our articles get premium promotion through Medium’s content-sharing algorithms and channels. This allows us to support the Data Visualization Society’s mission to “support the growth, refinement, and expansion of data visualization knowledge regardless of the expertise level of our members” by getting our members more exposure.

We highly encourage any of our members to use Nightingale to further their ideas and spark discussion both within the Data Visualization Society and outside it among the general community. We are here to help you!

What you should write about

Honestly, that’s up to you! We are interested in stories about all aspects of data visualization and information design for any industry, discipline or mindset! We have an expansive view of what data visualization encompasses and how we use it in our world. We currently have featured sections for Topics in Data Visualization, Data Humanism, Historic Dataviz, Sports Viz, Career Advice, and How To articles. We also intend to expand more into industry news, culture, reported features, and data-viz journalism. But please consider our publication a platform for any subject that you have in mind.

We pay all our writers

We are pleased to announce that, starting July 15, 2019, our partnership with Medium allows Nightingale to pay all our writers, editors, and illustrators. Please note that in order to be compensated for your work, you need to be part of the Medium Partner Program. To enroll, sign up here:

Here’s more information about the process of getting registered. It outlines the exact steps and forms you will need to fill out.

After you are registered, Medium will deposit your earnings directly into your bank account on the last Wednesday of every calendar month. If you want to donate your author’s fee back to the Data Visualization Society, let us know.

How to get started

If you are interested in writing for Nightingale, please send your Medium Profile name and your pitch to any of the editors on the DVS Slack or email us at pitchnightingale@gmail.com. For other inquiries and general questions about the DVS, you can email us at admin@datavisualizationsociety.com.

Once your pitch has been accepted and you’ve been made a writer, you can submit your unpublished draft to us when you’re ready. Once we receive it, we’ll connect you with an editor to prepare it for publication — it’s pretty easy!

Here’s how you add a Draft to our publication once we have made you a writer:

Please note that we are happy to publish articles in multiple languages, but may not be able to provide editorial support at this time for all languages.