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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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,...
From Static Infographic to Interactive Tool: Building the Social Security Benefit Explorer
Fourteen years ago, I made an infographic.
I was working in the Social Security group at the Congressional Budget Office and creating an explainer infographic—it was the time of tower infographics, after all—seemed like a logical place for...
Build Your Own Data Visualization Style Guide
If you’ve ever sent a chart to a colleague and gotten back something that looked nothing like what you had in mind—different colors, different fonts, different everything—you already understand why data visualization style guides exist.
A...
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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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