Welcome back to the show! In this week’s episode, I chat with Allen Carroll, former Chief Cartographer at National Geographic and part of Esri’s StoryMaps team. We talk about his new book, Telling Stories with Maps, which explores how maps…
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Welcome to the Season 11 Finale of the PolicyViz Podcast! I’m ready for a summer break and am super excited to close the season talking with Shirly Wu—data visualization artist, technologist, and community thought leader. We talk about Shirley’s journey…
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One of the five core guidelines in my data visualization work is what I call “Integrating the Graphics and Text.” In Better Data Visualizations, I quote Amanda Cox—recently on the podcast—who once said, “The annotation layer is the most important thing we…
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My friend Andy Kirk joins the show to reflect on the changing landscape of data visualization. We discuss the evolution of tools like Tableau and Flourish, the dispersion of social media communities, and how, how AI is reshaping workflows and…
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Recently, I estimated how a federal civilian workforce reduction of 15 percent would affect state Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. I found that some states, like Washington and Maryland, would see monthly UI costs increase by about $8 million (a 5…
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The General Services Administration, working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has started notifying agencies and landlords that federal agencies will be terminating hundreds of leases for offices and buildings in the coming months. The DOGE website currently lists…
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In this episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I speak with Yanni Loukissas, an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, about the importance of context in working with data. Yanni argues that data are not universal but local—shaped by their origins, environments,…
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In late January, using federal workforce data from the Office of Personnel Management, I published estimates of the implications of DOGE firing 75% of the federal civilian workforce. That 75% figure was based on comments from Vivek Ramaswamy and while…
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During the first month of the Trump Administration, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has cut or threatened to cut the jobs of thousands of federal workers. I’ve documented how cutting the federal civilian workforce could double local unemployment rates…
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Republicans in the US House of Representatives are pushing forward a plan to pass a budget that would cut Medicaid benefits, which provide free or low-cost health coverage to people across the country. Medicaid serves roughly 72 million Americans in…
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