My friend Stephanie Evergreen–who co-hosts the awesome Rad Presenters Podcast with me–published a post last week about labeling charts in Excel. In it, she offered some guidance about how to get rid of your default legends and directly label your charts…
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In early September, Severino Ribecca and I released a poster-sized version of The Graphic Continuum, a collection of the wide array of visualization types. In it, we plotted over 80 different graphics across six main categories: Distribution, Time, Comparing Categories, Geospatial,…
Continue readingLast Saturday, I helped organize and run the Urban Institute’s first Data Dive. The event focused on domestic violence, primarily as it related to the lack of data that can inform research and analysis. We partnered with the Asian/Pacific Islander…
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Sometimes a table is preferred to a graphic. A recent blog post from the Brookings Institution included a reprint of this graphic from Martin Neil Baily (Brookings) and Aaron David Klein (Bipartisan Policy Center). The graph is taken from a…
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Announcing The Rad Presenters Podcast! I know some really rad presenters. One of the raddest in Stephanie Evergreen, which is why I’m absolutely thrilled to launch a brand new podcast with her. The Rad Presenters Podcast! Each episode we will…
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I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be holding a special, two-day data visualization workshop on November 6th and 7th here in Washington, DC. Over the past year or so, I have taught a number of public data visualization workshops. The workshops provide…
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Last week, I wrote a post on Visually about the conceptual and design process behind The Graphic Continuum. In this post, I want to share some of the sources of inspiration for the project. I developed The Graphic Continuum with…
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For more than a year, I’ve been working on-and-off on a project I call The Graphic Continuum. It’s my view of the many different types of visualizations available to us when we encode and present data. In some ways, it’s a…
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Yesterday, I critiqued a revision of an existing slide deck where I claimed that some of the design choices and text elements could be significantly improved. As someone who spends time thinking, writing, and teaching how to give great presentations,…
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A few weeks ago, I came across an older blog post describing a suggested redesign of a slide presentation. As someone interested in helping researchers and analysts improve their presentation slides, I felt that some of the redesign decisions were poorly…
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