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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Mike Bostock is the creator of D3, a popular open-source JavaScript library for visualizing data and Observable, an open-source notebook for exploring data and thinking with code. Previously, Mike was a graphics editor for The New York Times, where he helped produce a…
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Niklas Elmqvist is a full professor in the iSchool at University of Maryland, College Park where he directs the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL). His research area is information visualization, human-computer interaction, and visual analytics. He was elevated to the rank…
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Last year, I was invited to speak to the Social Security Technical Panel, a group of experts who convene every four years to review the assumptions of the Social Security Trustees, a six-member board charged with overseeing the Social Security…
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I haven’t made any COVID-related visualizations this year–for the obvious reason that I’m not a health expert–but I did see a visualization recently that I thought could be improved, so I reached out to the authors and created a new…
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Jake Berman is an artist, historian, and attorney. His celebrated project The Lost Subways of North America has been featured in The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and Atlas Obscura. In this week’s episode of the podcast, Jake and I talk about his work and get a…
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Is it a map, a choropleth map, a cartogram, or a proportional symbol map? You may have an image for each in your head, but do we all use the same naming conventions? What about a network diagram, a network…
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In this week’s episode, I start to celebrate my new book, Elevate the Debate: A Multilayered Approach to Communicating Your Research. Co-authored with my colleagues in the communications department at the Urban Institute, the goal of the book is to…
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Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had some time to rest and relax with friends and family. Thanks for tuning into the show. On this week’s episode, I’m excited to chat with Amelia Wattenberger, a developer and designer focused…
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Robert Simmon is a data visualizer and designer working with Planet. He focuses on producing visualizations that are elegant and easily understandable, while accurately presenting the underlying data. He helped create some of NASA and Planet’s most widely-seen imagery, including…
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