How do we get people to connect with the large, and sometimes abstract, numbers we are trying to communicate? I’ll be talking about this very topic at next week’s Tapestry conference in Annapolis, MD, but it came up a few…
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A little over a week ago, I attended the Visualized conference in New York City. The two-day event highlighted designers, programmers, artists, scientists, and journalists who are transforming how we learn and interact with our world through data. I took…
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I’m excited to announce that I’ll be taking my PolicyViz data visualization and presentation techniques workshop on the road! Please join me on March 6, 2014 in Houston, TX for your choice of either a full-day or half-day workshop to…
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My article about data visualization was published in the Winter 2014 edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives last week. I’m supplying Excel files for the redesigned figures shown in the article as well as a zip file of PDFs of all…
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I’m really excited to announce that I have just published an article about data visualization in the Winter 2014 edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP). The JEP is one of the premier economics journals and I am thankful…
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Creating bullet charts in Excel can be a bit tricky. This slidedeck lays out a step-by-step approach to creating bullet charts in Excel. The approach was first made public by Jorge Camoes. An alternative version was published in early 2011…
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I’m generally a big fan of slope charts (as is, apparently, Andy Kirk at visualisingdata.org)—they are visually appealing; for many people, they are easier to understand than a scatterplot; and, they can really draw in the reader to explore the…
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Expiring frequent flyer miles are a great excuse to get a magazine you might not otherwise buy. For as long as I’ve been receiving ESPN The Magazine, it’s been packed with lots of 3D graphics, crazy unit charts, and column…
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Today marks the expansion of PolicyViz. The front page will no longer contain details about my data visualization and presentation techniques workshop. Instead, I’ll focus my efforts on writing about those same issues. I will continue to offer workshops on…
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