Causation or correlation?
Redesign Your Data Here I go again. Another great visualization with data displayed accurately, but great opportunity for misrepresentation. Some commentary accompanying the map suggested that higher costs of housing and living is the...
Stay Credible
Redesign Your Data This map made the rounds of my social media and email last month. Several different economic developers picked up on the opportunity to tout their positive growth, and sometimes to take some not so subtle digs at...
True but Troublesome
Redesign Your Data This visualization is a perfect example of one that can be true, but troublesome. Those of us in economic development know how much is left out of this chart, and how often we have had to explain what is left out. The...
Data for a K-Shaped Economy
Redesign Your Data Data is getting weird, or maybe it always was. Sometimes the “big data” releases come on time, sometimes they don’t, sometimes they get adjusted, 100% of the time they get spun. In a K-Shaped economy, or...