For the past few years, I’ve been working with teams of Interdisciplinary Research Leaders as they develop their research projects. Most teams are made up of three people and consist of researchers and community partners, including community organizers and advocates….
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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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As you probably know, Excel does not have a native image-exporting feature, so it requires a separate process to create a high resolution, standalone Excel chart. Many people create standalone graphs by taking screenshots of their Excel window, but screenshots…
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The “On…” series is a collection of short blog posts relating to data visualization, economics, presentation skills, or data communication. In each, I discuss an issue, concept, or idea that I have not fully developed, a work in progress, or…
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I really, really like this “radial map” (my name) the Guardian published in 2012 and then updated in 2015. The visualization shows seven different types of gay rights in all 50 US states plus Washington, DC. Each ring represents a…
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Like color, choosing a font can be a difficult decision for even the most seasoned designer. As one who is definitely not a typographer, I will usually seek help from others to guide my font selection. Given that I’m usually…
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It almost goes without saying, but tables are a way to visualize data. Tables of regression results are a common type of table researchers create. But they can be frustrating to create well—point estimates, standard errors, asterisks, variable names, column…
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A couple of weeks ago, I started making the graphs in the Financial Times’ Visual Vocabulary in Microsoft Excel. Based on the Graphic Continuum work I’ve done with Severino Ribecca, the FT’s Visual Vocabulary contains about 70 graphs with a…
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My affinity for tile grid maps is well documented. I think there a nice alternative to the standard choropleth map and even though they introduce their own geographic distortions (such as South Carolina placed to the east of North Carolina),…
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In June, Stefanie Posavec and I teamed up to offer two data visualization workshops, one in DC and another in Chicago. We had so much fun, and the feedback so positive, that we’ve decided to hold another round of workshops! If…
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