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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Spoiler alert! This post is going to ruin the end of the movie Avengers: Infinity War. The movie was released in April of this year and grossed more than $2 billion worldwide, so if you haven’t seen it, you probably…
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Update (2/2/19): It’s been about a month since this contest ended and about a dozen people have added their book reviews to Amazon. I’m grateful for those responses, but before I go about shipping books around the world, I’d like…
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The histogram is one of the most basic ways to visualize the distribution of your data. It’s a specific kind of bar chart that presents the tabulated frequency of data over distinct intervals (called bins) that sum to the total…
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