I’m calling March the “Month of Story.” Kicking off with the Tapestry Conference in St. Augustine, Florida, the Socrata Connect conference in Washington, DC on March 7, and ending with the Malofiej Infographic World Summit in Pamplona, Spain, I’m focusing on…
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Which country do you think has a higher infant mortality rate: Russia or Malaysia? Sri Lanka or Turkey? The late Hans Rosling used these questions in a 2006 TED talk to demonstrate that Swedish graduate students, who might make poorly…
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Welcome back to The PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I chat with Feng-yuan Liu and Shangqian Lee from GovTech Singapore. GovTech is responsible for using technology and data to help transform the public sector in Singapore. Their role includes deploying…
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Choosing and implementing color palettes is a difficult task in visualizing data. Color can be used to highlight and draw attention, but also to confuse. It can be used to make things seem drab or to make them “pop”. As…
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Hi everyone! Happy New Year and welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! I hope you had a relaxing holiday season. To kick off 2017, I’m excited to welcome Hadley Wickham to the show to talk about his work with the…
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In the previous iteration of this site, I reserved a special page dedicated to collecting Data Visualization Style Guides. I’m republishing that collection here as a blog post with the rekindled hope that readers will add their own or their…
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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…
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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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