The PolicyViz Newsletter
A bi-weekly newsletter dedicated to helping you do a better job processing, analyzing, sharing, and presenting your data.
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A Little Mac Tool to Export High-Resolution PNGs from Excel
If you make charts in Excel on a Mac, you’ve probably run into the challenge of getting them out of Excel and saved as a free-standing, high-resolution image. Maybe you’ve tried using Excel's “Save as Picture" option, which just gives you a...
When a Line Chart Is the Wrong Choice
From a dataviz perspective, this line chart from Anthropic is particularly interesting. It’s from a survey Anthropic conducted in February and March of this year of 1,260 social scientists and their use of AI. In this graph, the authors sho...
The Chart Styles Excel Add-In Is Back
A lot has changed since 2019 when I built the first iteration of the Excel styles add-in tool with Jon Peltier. AI tools have gotten genuinely impressive, and I use them regularly. But one thing I've noticed--and heard repeatedly from peopl...
Hundreds of Thousands of Children Have Lost SNAP Benefits, No Matter How You Spin It
A recent report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) caught my attention last week. It found that across 12 states with available data, the number of children receiving SNAP food assistance has fallen by more than 700,000...
Thoughtful Data: A Guide to Empathy and Equity in Data Communication
I’m thrilled to share that my new book, Thoughtful Data: A Guide to Empathy and Equity in Data Communication, is officially available for pre-order.
The book grew out of the Do No Harm Project at the Urban Institute—those guides on equity,...
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Come learn about data communication with me! I’m an economist and dataviz guy. Founder of PolicyViz, Senior fellow at the Urban Institute, professor at Georgetown and American University, and former analyst at CBO.
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