Lately, the data visualization community has wondered whether the field is getting a bit stale. Are we past the days of experimental visualization work? Why do visualizations like The New York Times’ 512 Paths to the White House from 2012…
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Recently, I estimated how a federal civilian workforce reduction of 15 percent would affect state Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. I found that some states, like Washington and Maryland, would see monthly UI costs increase by about $8 million (a 5…
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The General Services Administration, working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has started notifying agencies and landlords that federal agencies will be terminating hundreds of leases for offices and buildings in the coming months. The DOGE website currently lists…
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In late January, using federal workforce data from the Office of Personnel Management, I published estimates of the implications of DOGE firing 75% of the federal civilian workforce. That 75% figure was based on comments from Vivek Ramaswamy and while…
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During the first month of the Trump Administration, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has cut or threatened to cut the jobs of thousands of federal workers. I’ve documented how cutting the federal civilian workforce could double local unemployment rates…
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Republicans in the US House of Representatives are pushing forward a plan to pass a budget that would cut Medicaid benefits, which provide free or low-cost health coverage to people across the country. Medicaid serves roughly 72 million Americans in…
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The Trump Administration has made reducing the number of people working for the federal government a prominent goal for its first few months. Already, the administration has sought to close USAID (which provides services to developing countries), offer early retirement…
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One of the key pillars of my approach to visualizing data is finding ways to break up a dense chart into smaller chunks. Known most commonly as small multiples—but also as grid charts, panel charts, facets, or trellis charts—these visualizations…
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Last week was the 10th birthday of PolicyViz. (Thank you, Commonwealth of Virginia, for making the process super easy!). At the time, I needed a place to park my ideas about data and data visualization. I had written an article…
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President-elect Donald Trump has tasked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with running the non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Commission here in the US. So far, Trump, Musk, and Ramaswamy have boasted about how the Commission will make the government…
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