Playfair: an open source web app for creating annotated charts
As part of my work at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, I created a web app to make Equitable Growth (EG) styled charts. At EG we produce reports and policy papers on economic topics that...
View ArticleRe-making graphs in Playfair 1
This is going to be a semi-regular feature where I take some graphs I found and re-make them in my web app for charting data, Playfair. Find out more about Playfair at the github page. I’ve made a...
View ArticleHow to create a new theme for Playfair
One feature of Playfair that I haven’t really talked about yet is the ability to create themes. There isn’t any documentation on this yet so I’m going to give a quick walkthrough here by looking at the...
View ArticleRe-making graphs in Playfair 2: fivethirtyeight edition
I hadn’t intended to do another of these so soon but Nate Silver had a piece at fivethirtyeight today about Trump’s convention bounce. There’s one graph with the post and it caught my eye because it’s...
View ArticleA YouTube tutorial for using Playfair
Alberto Cairo called out this crappy Fox News chart the other day and solicited remakes: In case you missed it: Trumpian data visualization https://t.co/UBFcgLK6LV #dataviz #infographics...
View Articlefivethirtyeight.com’s election forecast graph re-made in Playfair (video)
I’ve added another video to my YouTube channel demonstrating how to make the above graph in my web app for graphing data, Playfair. Find out more about Playfair at the github page. I’ve made a simple...
View ArticleQuick #makeovermonday in Playfair
Andy Kriebel runs a twitter hashtag #makeovermonday where he revises an existing data visualization every Monday and invites his Twitter followers to do the same. The competition is Tableau-centric (or...
View ArticleStacked bar charts are often bad: a makeover of a vox.com graph
Stacked bar charts are often bad. It can be hard to compare categories that don’t start from the axis, more than a couple of categories can be confusing, and totals can be deceptive. Take a look at...
View ArticleExploring Gendered Language in Mass Culture, the Media, and Victorian Literature
Our President-elect is a man who calls women fat or ugly to dismiss them, makes crude references to menstruation, and boasts about getting away with sexual assault. The United States has elected a...
View ArticleI still don’t think Uber/Lyft reduce drunk driving
A couple years ago Uber claimed that it had reduced DWIs in Seattle. I analyzed that claim here (and an interesting extension by Lindsay Pettingill here). This claim is now coming back and there’s a...
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