Researchers and analysts have some unique challenges when it comes to presenting their data and analysis. We are often more focused on the data, statistics, and estimation results than soaring rhetoric or specific calls to action. That means we’re prone…
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In the previous iteration of this site, I reserved a special page dedicated to collecting Data Visualization Style Guides. I’m republishing that collection here as a blog post with the rekindled hope that readers will add their own or their…
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In this season of thanks, I thought I’d write a reflections kind of post. Recently, I had the fortunate opportunity to speak to a number of undergraduate students about their future career decisions: Should they go directly to graduate school?…
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Welcome to the newly redesigned PolicyViz website! Over the past few months, I’ve been reworking the site to offer you a better experience. As always, I want to help you learn how to more effectively present your content through visualizing…
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Everything you’ve come to know and love about the Graphic Continuum is now available as a set of flash cards! UPDATE: The Graphic Continuum Flash Cards are no longer available. Please view the other Graphic Continuum products in the PolicyViz…
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The Jewish High Holidays have come and gone. At this year’s service for the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), the senior rabbi at my temple, Rabbi Amy Schwartzman, gave a thoughtful sermon about the words we use and how they…
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I’ve never been a big VBA coder in Excel, but I’ve always wanted to be a big VBA coder in Excel. It would certainly save me a lot of time, but, well, yeah, I just haven’t learned. Until now! Over…
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On Wednesday and Thursday, the Urban Institute published two posts on gun violence in America I co-authored with a colleague (post #1 and post #2). One of the data visualizations in the first post was inspired not by the issue per se, but by…
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I saw this map in a Washington Post article a couple of weeks ago about how much you need to earn to buy a house in different cities around the country. The map comes from an article at HSH.com, which is…
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You may be aware that I have a “Redesigns” tab on PolicyViz, which consists of a collection of graphs to which I give a makeover. At some point in the next couple of months, I’m planning on taking that page down…
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