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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A couple of weeks ago, I started making the graphs in the Financial Times’ Visual Vocabulary in Microsoft Excel. Based on the Graphic Continuum work I’ve done with Severino Ribecca, the FT’s Visual Vocabulary contains about 70 graphs with a…
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My affinity for tile grid maps is well documented. I think there a nice alternative to the standard choropleth map and even though they introduce their own geographic distortions (such as South Carolina placed to the east of North Carolina),…
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I’ve been making my way through Sandra Rendgen’s new book, The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard. It’s a wonderful journey through Minard’s work and in particular, his development of the flow map. While Minard is generally…
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