News and Notes from PolicyViz - Issue #19
Happy Summer! Hopefully, you've started enjoying some warm weather and time outside (unless, of course, you're in the southern hemisphere and you're enjoying winter. But I digress).
Summer is in full effect here--I've got kids jumping between different camps, baseball games, and more. I'm trying to balance a variety of interesting projects and even doing some work building Tableau dashboards for a client!
The thing that's taking up a lot of my time is finishing up my next book, tentatively titled, "Data Visualization in Excel." My goal with this new project is to respond to the most common question about my previous book, Better Data Visualizations, which is, "This is all great, but how do I actually make these graphs?!"
This new book will be a step-by-step guide to creating better, more effective data visualizations in Excel. It expands on a lot of the content in my ebook and will hopefully give even introductory users a way to expand their Excel skills right off the bat. I've had some great help from an editor and graphic designer to tighten up the text and get all of the images ready for print. There's still a long way to go to get it ready for publication--including copyediting, final testing, and getting promotional blurbs for the back cover!--but I'm well on my way.
So, that should be a bunch of my summer--plus new YouTube videos and some blog writing--as well as a weeklong+ vacation in August. If you have questions about dataviz, interested in learning something new, or want to engage with me on any of these issues, please reach out!
Until then, enjoy your summer!
Thanks and take care,
Jon
Episode #220: Danielle Alberti
Danielle Alberti is the data visualization editor at Axios. She was previously a front-end web developer at Pew Research Center and is a journalism and anthropology graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She worked her way through nearly every newsroom job (including paper delivery) before landing in data visualization, where she very happily manages a team of ten amazing developer-designers to make news every day.
What I'm Reading
Books
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Visualising Knowledge: Lessons from 25 years of policy-related data visualisation, by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (downloadable PDF)
Articles
Guide to Data Chats: Convening Community Conversations about Data, Cohen et al.
Lack of Data Limits Ability to Analyze Effects of Tax Policies on Households by Demographic Characteristics, Government Accountability Office
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