Last week, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics published its monthly Employment Situation Summary. A few major issues came to light with this month’s report that I thought worth discussing. First, the attacks on a nonpartisan federal government agency. Second,…
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In case you don’t know, for the last 12 weeks or so I’ve been hosting live video chats with experts in the fields of data, presentation skills, and data visualization. This Data@Urban Digital Discussion series gives (I hope!) people an…
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Ronald L. (Ron) Wasserstein is the executive director of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and he joins me this week on the podcast to talk about the 2020 Census. In this role at the ASA, Wasserstein provides executive leadership and…
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David Johnson is the Deputy Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics at the University of Michigan. Prior to that position, Dr. Johnson was the Chief Economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. He also served as the chief of the…
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Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He teaches data visualization and infographics in our Journalism and Interactive Media Masters programs, and he is also the director of the Visualization Program at UM’s Center…
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On last week’s episode, I sat outside Facebook and chatted with Andy Kirk about our experience at the Social Science Foo Camp, a two-and-a-half day conference at Facebook that brought together all sorts of social scientists. One of the first…
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I hope you’ve enjoyed the last few episodes of the podcast. Continuing a theme that has been present in the last few episodes, on this week’s show I welcome Javier Zarracina from Vox and Anna Flagg from the Marshall Project…
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The conventional wisdom these days is that our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. We are always looking down at our phones, not looking at the world around us. Conversations don’t occur because we need to check email or…
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I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to believe that we are more likely to remember information that is presented visually than as text. Indeed, the Pictorial (or Picture) Superiority Effect has been long studied showing how much better…
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“Did you know that we can process visuals 60,000 times faster than text?” -3M Visual Systems Division This “statistic” is used all the time in promoting the value of data visualizations, marketing, and quality presentations. Hubspot has used it (multiple…
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