I saw this chart earlier this week in Chris Cillizza’s Washington Post article about changes in President Obama’s approval ratings. Here’s the figure and the accompanying text: As the chart shows, four of the major pillars of President Obama’s electoral…
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This is what I call a process post—and a long process post at that. It’s a post about how I prepared my “Short Story” talk for the February Tapestry Conference in Annapolis, MD (the video is below). Five of us…
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Cole Nussbaumer at Storytelling With Data wrote an interesting post last week about choosing between light and dark backgrounds for data visualizations. Though she cited Nancy Duarte’s book Slide:ology, Cole focused on backgrounds in specific data visualizations and not about…
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I’m happy to host this guest post from Mynda Treacy of MyOnlineTrainingHub. Mynda writes about and teaches Excel skills, ranging from number formats to chart types and Excel Dashboards. The example Mynda writes about here is also being cross-posted on…
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I’m happy to announce that the next PolicyViz data visualization and presentation techniques workshop will be held on Tuesday, April 22nd in Alexandria, VA. The workshop includes instruction and discussion about best practices for data visualization and presentation techniques. There…
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In case you’re not aware, today is March 14, 2014—3/14/14—better known as Pi Day. For some, this is probably an excuse to eat a lot of pie and for others it’s probably an excuse to memorize some number of digits…
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Last week I participated in the Thinking With Your Eyes (#thinkeyes2014) visualization symposium at Harvard University. The purpose of the meeting was to explore the uses of data visualization across different disciplines and research methods. Researchers from such varied fields…
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My last post about the Visualized conference. I hope you have enjoyed reading these posts over the last week. For me, Visualized was a refreshing change of pace from my usual economics conference experience where presenters typically fail to consider the needs…
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The Visualized conference started out as a rah-rah for data storytelling. But in a surprise visit, Kim Rees (who was in NYC for less than 48 hours, if I’m not mistaken) threw some cold water on the cheerleading, arguing that…
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Presentation authors and coaches often advise speakers to tell personal stories because it helps connect the presenter with the audience. Visualized conference speakers were effective at doing so, with Kim Rees talking about growing up interested in data and numbers,…
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