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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I Replicated Two Tableau Dashboards With Claude. Here’s What Broke and What Didn’t.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve run an experiment testing Claude’s ability to recreate Tableau dashboards using the standard Superstore sample dataset. Given the vast potential of AI-tools for data visualization, I wanted to see how eff...
Season 13 of the PolicyViz Podcast Is Here
After a quiet summer, the podcast is back. Season 13 kicks off this week, and I want to give you a quick sense of what’s coming.
What’s on the docket
New books, new projects, and a lot of conversations with people doing interesting wor...
One Metric, Five Charts: Trying to Show SNAP Error-Rate Variability
Last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) included provisions that cut food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program (SNAP) and imposed additional costs on state budgets starting this year. As of October 1st...
Visualizing Qualitative Data: Challenges, Strategies, and Opportunities
Last year, I was asked to write two “Rip Outs” for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. What is a “Rip Out”, you ask? Rip Outs are purposely short articles designed to provide readers with information to facilitate their work as educa...
Right-Side Y-Axis Labels: Fan or Foe
At the end of the data visualization class I teach at Georgetown University, I show students some classic, historical examples of data visualization, including from Florence Nightingale, John Snow, and William Playfair. This year, something...
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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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