This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s MetroTrends blog. A quick story: A few months ago, I was chatting with one of my former graduate school professors. I was telling him about a client who was concerned that his…
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(Cross-posted with HelpMeViz) I’m excited to announce the first live HelpMeViz Hackathon event. On Saturday, June 28th, HelpMeViz will bring together coders, data scientists, and data visualizers in Washington, DC, to help Bread for the World Institute with two data visualization challenges…
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The last Data Stories podcast featured a fantastic discussion with Enrico Bertini, Alberto Cairo, Robert Kosara, and Moritz Stefaner about storytelling in data visualization. I’ll save my post about storytelling for another time, but right now I want to write about…
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It’s beyond me how I ended up on the ArcGIS mailing list, but every so often I get one of their newsletters that contains the latest and greatest cartography tools and research. I usually scan the magazine pretty quickly, but…
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I saw this chart earlier this week in Chris Cillizza’s Washington Post article about changes in President Obama’s approval ratings. Here’s the figure and the accompanying text: As the chart shows, four of the major pillars of President Obama’s electoral…
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This is what I call a process post—and a long process post at that. It’s a post about how I prepared my “Short Story” talk for the February Tapestry Conference in Annapolis, MD (the video is below). Five of us…
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Cole Nussbaumer at Storytelling With Data wrote an interesting post last week about choosing between light and dark backgrounds for data visualizations. Though she cited Nancy Duarte’s book Slide:ology, Cole focused on backgrounds in specific data visualizations and not about…
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I’m happy to host this guest post from Mynda Treacy of MyOnlineTrainingHub. Mynda writes about and teaches Excel skills, ranging from number formats to chart types and Excel Dashboards. The example Mynda writes about here is also being cross-posted on…
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I’m happy to announce that the next PolicyViz data visualization and presentation techniques workshop will be held on Tuesday, April 22nd in Alexandria, VA. The workshop includes instruction and discussion about best practices for data visualization and presentation techniques. There…
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In case you’re not aware, today is March 14, 2014—3/14/14—better known as Pi Day. For some, this is probably an excuse to eat a lot of pie and for others it’s probably an excuse to memorize some number of digits…
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