On this week’s episode of the show, I chat with Virginia Eubanks about how high-tech tools and software profile and punish people of color and low-income people and families.
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Earlier this week, I spoke to the Data Visualization NY Meetup group about the recent work I’ve been doing with my Urban Institute colleague Alice Feng. As you may have seen, Alice and I co-authored a blog and paper (posted…
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Zach Norris, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, author of We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities, and co-founder of Restore Oakland, visits the PolicyViz podcast to talk about working with and for people and families across the country.
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The following post is a summarized version of the article accepted to the 2020 Visualization for Communication workshop as part of the 2020 IEEE VIS conference to be held in October 2020. The full paper has been published as an OSF Preprint…
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Kandrea Wade visits the podcast to talk about her work on algorithmic identity and the digital surveillance of marginalized groups. More information and links in the full show notes.
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I recently wrote about the binning and legend choices NPR used in a hex grid map showing state-by-state variation in COVID infections. Today, I’m turning my attention to a sequential color palette in a set of maps published by the…
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There was a bit of a dataviz hubbub yesterday and today owing to this tweet from Georgia Person: In just 15 days the total number of #COVID19 cases in Georgia is up 49%, but you wouldn’t know it from looking…
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Take a look at this line chart that shows changes in COVID-related infections in Pike County, Kentucky since late March. Looks like things are moving in the right direction, doesn’t it? On second glance, the vertical axis is getting larger…
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My forthcoming book, Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks, is now available on Amazon and other booksellers! The book will be released later this year and my hope is that it becomes the go-to resource for…
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Alper Sarikaya is a Research and Development Engineer at Microsoft working on Power BI and its visualization features. His experience has focused on enabling people to create summary visualizations for the purposes of effectively communicating trends, patterns, and distributions in…
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