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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This post was originally published on the Urban Institute’s blog, Urban Wire on March 20, 2019. Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Opening Day is less than two weeks away. For fans like me, it’s a glorious day of blue skies, green…
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The primary workflow of many organizations goes through the Microsoft Office system. They use PowerPoint for presentations, Word for documents and reports, and Excel for data analysis and visualization. For some of these organizations, applying their branding styles and guidelines…
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I started creating Excel versions of the graphs in the Financial Times’ Visual Vocabulary a couple of weeks ago and have successfully completed all but 13. The FT’s graphic library was based on the Graphic Continuum work Severino Ribecca and…
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