These video chats have moved over to the Urban Institute website as “Data@Urban Digital Discussions.” Additional events are being scheduled, so please see the Urban website for more details and call-in information. In light of our COVID-inspired self-quarantines, I am…
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Is it a map, a choropleth map, a cartogram, or a proportional symbol map? You may have an image for each in your head, but do we all use the same naming conventions? What about a network diagram, a network…
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Great research—whether it comes from academia, nonprofit organizations, or business thought leaders—needs a plan to make an impact. A good communications strategy can ensure that the biggest audience, and ultimately the right audience, engages with the findings and applies them. The Urban Institute’s communications…
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I really, really like this “radial map” (my name) the Guardian published in 2012 and then updated in 2015. The visualization shows seven different types of gay rights in all 50 US states plus Washington, DC. Each ring represents a…
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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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Update (12/13/19): The video of my talk for SAGE Ocean for which these slides are based, is now available. A couple of weeks ago, I published 4 Observations on Animating Your Data Visualizations on the Urban Institute’s Data at Urban…
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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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