TLDR. PowerPoint doesn’t make bad slides and it doesn’t give bad presentations—people do. Here, I refute the arguments in a recent “death by PowerPoint”-type blog post. Though seemingly rooted in academic research, upon further inspection it becomes clear the author…
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About two years ago, my son received an Xbox One for the holidays. A few months later, alongside the Washington Capitals Stanley Cup run, he and I played a bunch of NHL on the new system. A weird pattern started…
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I was recently asked to reflect on the current state of the data visualization field and what the next year or so might bring. There are a lot of trends and topics I find really interesting about the data visualization…
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This is a guest post from Debbie Morgan from Bold Web Design. Colors are everywhere in our lives, so much so we don’t even realise the huge impact they play. We use them for styling websites, the clothes we wear…
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A couple of weeks ago, I published 4 Observations on Animating Your Data Visualizations on the Urban Institute’s Data at Urban blog. In that post, I shared some observations about animation in the data visualization field. I was encouraged to…
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Amazon Prime Day 2019 is coming next week on July 15 and 16, and I’m getting ready to share some of the best deals on books and gear related to data visualization and presentation skills. The fifth annual Prime Day…
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Earlier this week, I attended the one day “Stats for America” conference at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was an interesting conference that focused on the use and communication of data and analyses from several federal agencies. My primary…
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Like color, choosing a font can be a difficult decision for even the most seasoned designer. As one who is definitely not a typographer, I will usually seek help from others to guide my font selection. Given that I’m usually…
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It almost goes without saying, but tables are a way to visualize data. Tables of regression results are a common type of table researchers create. But they can be frustrating to create well—point estimates, standard errors, asterisks, variable names, column…
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Paul Kiel and Hannah Fresques at ProPublica wrote this really interesting article a few weeks ago about the geographic distribution of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit rates. They found that states with the lowest audit rates “tend to be home…
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