News and Notes from PolicyViz - Issue #8

This marks the final newsletter and podcast for 2021. I want to thank you for your support and interest in the topics I write and talk about here and on the PolicyViz website.

I won't belabor the difficulty of 2021--we all know the challenges we have all faced and will continue to face in the coming months. Personally, I consider myself to be very lucky these days. I have a job I enjoy, a great network of friends and colleagues, and a family that is happy and healthy. I hope you are in a similar position and that you have a restful and healthy holiday season.

To wrap up the year, I give you some Top 5 lists--some dataviz related, some not.

Take care and Happy Holidays!

-Jon

Top 5 PolicyViz Blog Posts of 2021

1. High Resolution Excel Images

2. The Ten Most Misleading Charts During Donald Trump’s Presidency

3. Five Charts You’ve Never Used but Should

4. Three Things You can do to Make Your Data Tables More Visual

5. One Chart at a Time Video Series

Top 5 PolicyViz Podcasts of 2021

1. Episode #201: Leland Wilkinson

2. Episode #200: Do No Harm Guide

3. Episode # 199: Miriah Meyer

4. Episode #195: Nadieh Bremer & Shirley Wu

5. Episode #191: Sarah Williams

My Top 5(6) DataViz Books Published in 2021

1. Better Data Visualizations--I mean, I have to include my own book, right?

2. Living in Data by Jer Thorp

3. I am a portal by Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick

4. Thematic Mapping by Kenneth Field

5. Atlas of the Invisible by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

6. A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication by Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer

My Top 5 Tweets from 2021

1. On “Smoreos”

2. Better Data Visualizations unboxing video

3. Preattentive Attributes image from Alvin Wendt

4. Updated Data Visualization Catalog

5. Lego desk replica from my son

Top 5 TV Shows Released in 2021

1. Dopesick

2. The Shrink Next Door

3. Sex Education, Season 3

4. Only Murders in the Building

5. Shrill, Season 3

Podcast Episode #208: Frank Elavsky

Frank Elavsky joins me for the final episode of the podcast in 2021. Frank is a software engineer turned researcher, embarking on a PhD at the intersection of accessibility and information-rich systems at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the author of Chartability, a set of heuristics for evaluating the accessibility of data representations.

Follow me on Instagram

I've got some fun stuff showing up on my Instagram feed lately. Some more fun signs as I've been getting back out in the world a little bit. Plus, some new dataviz-related images. I'm hoping to get more into the video content in 2022.