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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One of the early data visualization best practices I was interested in learning more about was how and where to place my vertical axis labels. It seems like a simple, basic aspect of data visualization design. Most default software programs rotate…
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Far too many presenters pack their slides with far too much information: text, bullet points, graphs, data markers, data labels, and collections of images. This information-dump encourages the audience to read the slides and spend less time listening to you…
Continue readingI read this interesting article by Damon Darlin in the Upshot at the New York Times the other day. In it, he writes about how the size of new homes in the U.S. has risen over time, both by square footage…
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In a recent article about the political geography in Scotland, The Guardian created a tile grid map, but instead of inserting text in the grid, they inserted Sankey diagrams. It was an interesting approach, and Alberto Cairo remarked that, “I…
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This is a guest post from David Napoli, a BI & Analytics Director (and recovering rocket scientist) who has worked as lead actuary, statistician, and headed up analytics departments for several healthcare organizations over the last 20 years. In a…
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