The 2016 KANTAR Information is Beautiful Awards were announced last week and The PolicyViz Podcast has made it to the shortlist of the Best DataViz Website category! I’m quite honored that someone(s) nominated the show for this year’s awards and…
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On this week’s episode of The PolicyViz Podcast, I chat with the organizers of the DC chapter of the Data+Women Meetup group, Brittany Fong, Julie Kim, Emily Kund, and Erin Simpler. We talk about the current state of the group, challenges…
Continue readingOn Tuesday, I posted the 55th episode of The PolicyViz Podcast. I won’t publish a new episode until the fall, so this gives me a good chance to take a breath, take stock, and gear up for the next set…
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Back when I worked for the Congressional Budget Office, I was required to file an annual financial disclosure form. I totally hated it. I had to document every stock holding, 529 account, savings bond, my spouse’s income, everything. And even…
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Last week, I spent an amazing day in New York City working with about 35 other awesome people discussing the ethical, security, and privacy challenges facing people working with data and creating data visualizations. The conversations at this Responsible Data Forum were…
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I usually hate these kind of “Year in Review” wrap-up posts, but I figured I have enough good and bad stuff saved that it was worth sharing. No rankings here, just a stream-of-consciousness kind of thing. But let me be…
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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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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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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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Videos from the 2014 Visualized conference in New York City were posted late last week. Shortly after the conference last January, I wrote 8 separate posts summarizing my observations about data, storytelling, aesthetics, and other aspects of data visualization and…
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