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Hi, We’ve been struggling with how to make this table reader friendly for the non-data literate. Please help! This table is included in a larger report that will be distributed to community agencies with varying levels of data literacy. Please…
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This request for help comes from Mike Clark. I am aiming to compare two categories (both in percentage), one of which can and does have negative values for particular locations, and then grouped into regions. There is also a 75%…
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This post originally appeared on the Urban Institute’s Urban Wire blog I had a hard time visually picking out the story in a simple chart published by the Financial Times earlier this week. There was nothing special or particularly complex about the…
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I’m interested in the relationship between a country’s urban population (as percent of total) and the share of the country’s land in agriculture. In this World Bank data, I wanted to focus on some of the interesting outliers I discovered….
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Bradley Hardy from American University sends in the following request: I’m trying to figure out how to create “nice” panel charts in excel, where I’m currently attempting to do so in Stata. (See for example Figure 2.) I can easily…
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Over on PolicyViz, I wrote a post about this graph from The Fix at the Washington Post. I’m not a fan of the graph namely because the focus of the article was about the change in approval ratings between 2012…
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I saw this chart earlier this week in Chris Cillizza’s Washington Post article about changes in President Obama’s approval ratings. Here’s the figure and the accompanying text: As the chart shows, four of the major pillars of President Obama’s electoral…
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This is what I call a process post—and a long process post at that. It’s a post about how I prepared my “Short Story” talk for the February Tapestry Conference in Annapolis, MD (the video is below). Five of us…
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Reader and contributor Ulrik Willemoes writes in the following request for Excel help. I am looking for some feedback on a rather basic visualization. I wish to display a parts-to-whole relationship over time. I know stacked bars or areas do not…
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Over on PolicyViz.com, Mynda Treacy from MyOnlineTrainingHub wrote a guest blog post about visualizing basketball data. Mynda writes about and teaches Excel skills, ranging from number formats to chart types to VBA code. In her PolicyViz post, Mynda walks through her…
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