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Next PolicyViz Workshop

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be holding a special, two-day data visualization workshop on November 6th and 7th here in Washington, DC. Over the past year or so, I have taught a number of public data visualization workshops. The workshops provide…

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Maps Need Context

I co-authored this post with Bryan Connor of The Why Axis fame. This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s Urban Wire blog. It might be the case that maps are the most data-dense visualizations. Consider your basic roadmap: it includes road types (highways, toll…

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Next PolicyViz Workshop Announced

I’m happy to announce that the next PolicyViz data visualization and presentation techniques workshop will be held on Tuesday, April 22nd in Alexandria, VA. The workshop includes instruction and discussion about best practices for data visualization and presentation techniques. There…

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Happy Pi Day!

In case you’re not aware, today is March 14, 2014—3/14/14—better known as Pi Day.  For some, this is probably an excuse to eat a lot of pie and for others it’s probably an excuse to memorize some number of digits…

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