Do you like to use diverging color palettes in your #dataviz? Make sure you're using them correctly and are labeling the midpoint. Some thoughts in a much too long post. | policyviz.com/2022/02/07/you…

What (free!) #dataviz blogs, newsletters, places to practice, examples, and tools do I use? Check out this annotated list. (with s/o to Ann K. Emery, Nathan Yau, Philip Bump, Cole Knaflic, Christopher Ingraham🦗, and many more). | policyviz.com/2022/02/14/fre…

Do data visualization awards separate the data from the design? New blog post on some reservations about #dataviz awards. | policyviz.com/2022/02/17/sho…

🏒🏒I had a lot of fun with this post on NHL data that looks at goalie height & weight during Wayne Gretzky's and Alex Ovechkin's careers. Hopefully, I did Joe Beninati, Craig Laughlin, The Junkies, & Grant Paulsen proud. | policyviz.com/2022/02/23/ove…

Need even more hockey data? Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how I collected, analyzed, and visualized data on NHL goalie height and weight (plus other stuff). | policyviz.com/2022/02/23/the…

What are Senators Saying About the Uvalde, Texas School Shooting? A new analysis using Twitter data. | policyviz.com/2022/06/06/wha…

My UW–Madison (& Poverty Research IRP) mentor and friend Robert (Bob) Haveman passed away last week. Bob was a major influence in my life and I'll miss him. I've written a short memorial to him on my site. | policyviz.com/2022/06/29/in-…

Back to school this week? Are you a K-12 teacher or instructor? Read this post and fill out the linked Google Form for your chance to win five FREE Match It data visualization card games! | policyviz.com/2022/08/22/mat…

Dual axis charts are confusing, hard to read, and can be easily manipulated to suggest correlations when none exist. Here are some things to consider. | policyviz.com/2022/10/06/avo…

Some thoughts about creating data visualizations with outliers. | policyviz.com/2022/10/24/bre…

I built a color contrast checker in Microsoft Excel. It's a multi-step process and enables you to do color accessibility checks for multiple color pairs quickly. See how I built it and download it for yourself. | policyviz.com/2022/11/01/col…

How do you get people to get away from the same old graphs time and time again? Maybe show them different alternatives! | policyviz.com/2022/11/28/get…

I was curious, so I updated the famous NYT Yield Curve in Microsoft Excel (using quarterly data). Here's how I did it and why--with a downloadable Excel file to boot! | policyviz.com/2022/12/09/upd…

Download more than 500 color palettes from @edithwyoung's book, Color Scheme, in CMYK, RGB, and HEX codes. Then, listen to the podcast episode! policyviz.com/2022/12/20/col…

The PolicyViz site will be down for a bit and here’s why.

Incredibly grateful to Sam Parsons for his "Super Advanced Tableau Tables" dashboard and instructional video. In this blog post, you'll find my shorthand list of the steps for each Tableau visualization in Sam's tutorial. | policyviz.com/2023/02/23/sup…

Some thoughts on trustworthiness in data visualization. | policyviz.com/2023/03/10/are…

I'm super duper excited to talk with my friend Jen Christiansen on this week's episode of the PolicyViz Podcast. We talk about her fabulous new book and ways to bring people together to create amazing data visualizations. | policyviz.com/podcast/episod…

Visual Vocabulary in Excel policyviz.com/product/visual…

Take an interesting approach to defining the data elements in your chart by using clever legends. | policyviz.com/2023/04/13/cle…