I’ve been doing a lot of teaching and training on data visualization and presentation techniques lately. I’ve been working with folks at work, showing them best practices, some Excel tricks, and different tools and techniques. I’ve been doing a lot more…
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New year, new ideas. This year, I’m launching a “Remakes” [Update May 2021: These are now called “Redesigns“] page to PolicyViz, which will serve as an ongoing repository for data visualizations that I think are in need a makeover. I’ll regularly…
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This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s MetroTrends blog. Looking back, 2014 may be known as the Year of Data-Driven Journalism. Journalists’ use of more and better data will probably, ultimately lead to better stories and a better understanding…
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I was at a conference earlier this fall and someone asked me whether it’s possible to create an Excel chart where only the first (top) y-axis label has a percentage sign format while the others were just number labels. In…
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Videos from the 2014 Visualized conference in New York City were posted late last week. Shortly after the conference last January, I wrote 8 separate posts summarizing my observations about data, storytelling, aesthetics, and other aspects of data visualization and…
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My friend Stephanie Evergreen–who co-hosts the awesome Rad Presenters Podcast with me–published a post last week about labeling charts in Excel. In it, she offered some guidance about how to get rid of your default legends and directly label your charts…
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In early September, Severino Ribecca and I released a poster-sized version of The Graphic Continuum, a collection of the wide array of visualization types. In it, we plotted over 80 different graphics across six main categories: Distribution, Time, Comparing Categories, Geospatial,…
Continue readingLast Saturday, I helped organize and run the Urban Institute’s first Data Dive. The event focused on domestic violence, primarily as it related to the lack of data that can inform research and analysis. We partnered with the Asian/Pacific Islander…
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Sometimes a table is preferred to a graphic. A recent blog post from the Brookings Institution included a reprint of this graphic from Martin Neil Baily (Brookings) and Aaron David Klein (Bipartisan Policy Center). The graph is taken from a…
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Announcing The Rad Presenters Podcast! I know some really rad presenters. One of the raddest in Stephanie Evergreen, which is why I’m absolutely thrilled to launch a brand new podcast with her. The Rad Presenters Podcast! Each episode we will…
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