A recent Washington Post poll about voters feelings toward President Trump’s policies found a public mostly critical of the president’s policies. As part of their write-up, they compared these poll results with responses to a similar poll conducted in February, shortly after…
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In this episode, I sit down with William Beach, former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to dig into how America’s most important economic data are produced. We talk about the nuts and bolts of how the BLS jobs…
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I’m excited to kick off Season 12 of the PolicyViz Podcast! In this short premiere, I share a few personal and professional updates and preview what’s ahead on the show. This season, I’ll focus on three big themes: changes to…
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This is a guest post from Fabio Murgia, a data visualization designer with the iDeas Lab at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he specializes in translating data sets into infographics and visual stories. Before joining CSIS,…
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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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The stacked bar chart is a tricky little devil. It stacks several segments on top of each other, asking the reader to make part-to-whole comparisons while comparing total amounts. So when we create stacked bar charts, we ask a lot…
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In this week’s episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, I am reposting my 2015 interview with Edward Tufte, one of the pioneers of data visualization and author of seminal books like The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. At the time, Tufte…
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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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In this episode of the PolicyViz Podcast, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic joins me to discuss the evolution of her work in data storytelling—from corporate workshops to her newest venture into children’s literature. We explore how the pandemic transformed training formats, the…
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Lately, the data visualization community has wondered whether the field is getting a bit stale. Are we past the days of experimental visualization work? Why do visualizations like The New York Times’ 512 Paths to the White House from 2012…
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