The city of Antwerp, in the Flemish region of Belgium, is a big urban and economic hub. With a constantly growing population, currently surpassing half a million inhabitants, Antwerp is also the second biggest metropolitan region in the country. Being Europe’s second-largest port it also plays an important role…

By Dieuwertje van Dijk, Data Visualization Designer at Datylon Bar charts and pencils: what do they have in common? When writing this blog, I really don’t know how to start. What can I write about a bar chart that is interesting for you to read or hasn’t been already said…

By Ivan Kilin, Data Visualization Specialist at Datylon How do we see the world in colors? It all starts with the light. The light can come from the Sun, fire or a lamp sending waves of different lengths. The surfaces around us have different capacities for absorbing wavelengths, so some…

POM, a Belgian fin-tech scale-up, was looking for a way to improve the monthly reporting on their payment services. The raw data formats needed to be replaced by a visually appealing and on-brand report template. Also, the manual process needed to be automated to save time and scale the service. Challenges with report design and production …

By Dieuwertje van Dijk, Data Visualization Designer at Datylon When somebody asks me about my profession and I tell them that I’m a data visualization designer, most people have no clue what I’m actually doing. Nowadays it has become a bit easier to explain my passion because of the commonly…

By Kosma Hess, Digital Marketer at Datylon Not long ago, Datylon decided to join the software reviews platform Capterra. There are many similar websites on the Internet and they don’t need to be mutually exclusive. But as we know, Rome wasn’t built in a day. …

By Erik Laurijssen, Founder & CEO of Datylon With a goal to dive deeper into the growing need for smarter dataviz solutions within Illustrator, some time ago we posted an online questionnaire. And the people (n=244) have spoken! Scroll on down to check out the results. We’ve also spent some…

By Ivan Kilin, Data Visualization Specialist at Datylon Climate change is one of the most heated (no pun intended) topic conversations today. This is not just a short-term agenda. It is an area in which the common future depends on our decisions today. …

By Dieuwertje van Dijk, Data Visualization Designer at Datylon “Your disk is almost full. Save space by optimizing storage”. Does this sound familiar? Well, for me this is a frustration that keeps following me multiple times a year. First, I postpone it at least five times (don’t we all?), …