Redesigns

You might now know that I’m not a huge hater of pie charts. They do have their place and they can have value. But, just like a bad column chart or a bad map, there are also bad pie charts….

Following the recent Senate special election in Alabama, (the fantastic) Sarah Slobin over at Quartz wrote this really interesting article where she looked at the relationship between counties that voted for Democrat candidate Doug Jones and the distribution of slavery in…

This graph from the IMF popped up a while ago and I can’t really figure it out. It shows the share of income held by the top 1% in 13 countries around the world. The plotted metrics appear to be…

The debate over stacked bar charts is all the rage these days, it seems. Cole Nussbaumer-Knaflic had a nice post a couple of days ago, as did Steve Wexler (more on Steve’s post in a moment). Alberto Cairo wrote a…

My friend Ann Emery posted this tweet over the weekend: Coffee convo with the non-datanerd hubby: Can you remake this? This is hard to read, right? 4 groups, I can’t tell what’s supposed to add to 100%, & they ran out…

I saw this graph in a tweet from the Brookings Institution in mid-October and thought there might be a better way to present the data: Do you rent or own? Here’s what we know about American homeowners, renters, and prospective…

I saw this tweet from American University’s School of Public Affairs in early October: Survey Results: NGOs and local gov’ts working together in developing countries are likely to do so for the following reasons. @JocelynMJohn pic.twitter.com/NWWNq3VmPE — SchoolPublicAffairs (@AU_SPA) October…

On Wednesday and Thursday, the Urban Institute published two posts on gun violence in America I co-authored with a colleague (post #1 and post #2). One of the data visualizations in the first post was inspired not by the issue per se, but by…

I saw this map in a Washington Post article a couple of weeks ago about how much you need to earn to buy a house in different cities around the country. The map comes from an article at HSH.com, which is…