This was originally published on HelpMeViz on May 7, 2015. I’m excited to announce the return of our second annual HelpMeViz Data Vizathon event. On Saturday, May 30th, HelpMeViz will bring back our community of coders, data scientists, and data…
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Over the past few months, I’ve been developing this PowerPoint keyboard shortcut card. There are lots of places you can find libraries of PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts, including Nuts and Bolts Speed Training and Geetesh Bajaj at Indezine, but I wanted an easy-to-use,…
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This post was originally published on the Urban Institute’s blog, Urban Wire on April 15, 2015. You may have noticed that over the past couple of years the Urban Institute has accelerated its efforts to effectively and strategically visualize data and visually…
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We’ve all seen it: The bar (or column) chart with 20 or 30 or 40 different groups, each with two, three, of four categories. Is that a good chart type? Is it useful? I’ve recently started to think that these…
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I’m very excited to announce a new data visualization conference that will take place in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 21, 2015–Visualized: Political Data. That’s right, the folks who brought you Visualized in NYC in 2014 (on which I posted…
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Happy Pi Day everyone! It’s especially fun this year because today is 3/14/15. If you’re a regular reader of this blog or of the data visualization field in general, you’re probably well aware of many people’s disdain for pie charts…
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I’ve been doing a lot of teaching and training on data visualization and presentation techniques lately. I’ve been working with folks at work, showing them best practices, some Excel tricks, and different tools and techniques. I’ve been doing a lot more…
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New year, new ideas. This year, I’m launching a “Remakes” [Update May 2021: These are now called “Redesigns“] page to PolicyViz, which will serve as an ongoing repository for data visualizations that I think are in need a makeover. I’ll regularly…
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This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s MetroTrends blog. Looking back, 2014 may be known as the Year of Data-Driven Journalism. Journalists’ use of more and better data will probably, ultimately lead to better stories and a better understanding…
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I was at a conference earlier this fall and someone asked me whether it’s possible to create an Excel chart where only the first (top) y-axis label has a percentage sign format while the others were just number labels. In…
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