The corpus of data visualization books is evolving. We are moving beyond the “Dataviz 101” titles into books that explore process, misinformation, data literacy, organizing teams, and more. To keep things manageable—and costs down—I’ve maintained a relatively short list of…
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A recent Washington Post poll about voters feelings toward President Trump’s policies found a public mostly critical of the president’s policies. As part of their write-up, they compared these poll results with responses to a similar poll conducted in February, shortly after…
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This is a guest post from Fabio Murgia, a data visualization designer with the iDeas Lab at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he specializes in translating data sets into infographics and visual stories. Before joining CSIS,…
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The stacked bar chart is a tricky little devil. It stacks several segments on top of each other, asking the reader to make part-to-whole comparisons while comparing total amounts. So when we create stacked bar charts, we ask a lot…
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One of the five core guidelines in my data visualization work is what I call “Integrating the Graphics and Text.” In Better Data Visualizations, I quote Amanda Cox—recently on the podcast—who once said, “The annotation layer is the most important thing we…
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Over the past several weeks, I have been investigating how changes in the US federal government will affect states and localities using local-level data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). To further this work, many have pointed me to…
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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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