As you likely already know, I am a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC. I spend half my time conducting economic research (mostly on SNAP and Disability Insurance) and the other half in…
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“This is a guest post from Alice Jackson, a business consultant, blogger, social media enthusiast, online market analyst, amateur designer, and an avid author at Designhill. She has written on several topics including social media marketing, SEO, content marketing, startup…
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Last month, Ann Emery wrote a post about visualizing statistically significant point estimates. She took a standard table with nine variables spread across three countries—27 numbers in total plus asterisks denoting four different levels of statistical significance—and remade it to…
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One of the more fun parts of my data visualization workshops is where I give people Post-It Notes and Sharpie markers, show them two numbers, and ask them to draw as many graphs as they can. Quantity, not quality, I…
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I was cleaning out some old files folders on my computer and came across this column chart from the Wall Street Journal. As I’ve written previously, I find certain column charts with lots of columns difficult to read, and this…
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Take a look at this stacked column chart from Merrill Lynch and reposted by the World Economic Forum. By itself, it’s a pretty basic chart that shows the distribution of spending across seven categories by four generations of Americans. On…
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You might now know that I’m not a huge hater of pie charts. They do have their place and they can have value. But, just like a bad column chart or a bad map, there are also bad pie charts….
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How many maps have you seen and not thought twice about how the data are plotted? Has the author carefully considered the colors assigned to the geographic units? Are the data placed into reasonably sized bins or groups? How were…
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(This is a blog post from Nikki Branzelle, Senior Stylist at Trunk Club in Washington, DC. I invited Nikki to write this post because, believe it or not, your appearance matters when you present! Trunk Club is not a financial…
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Following the recent Senate special election in Alabama, (the fantastic) Sarah Slobin over at Quartz wrote this really interesting article where she looked at the relationship between counties that voted for Democrat candidate Doug Jones and the distribution of slavery in…
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