Visual Insights

Who Can Afford to be a State Legislator?

According to the NCSL, only 10 states pay legislators “enough to allow them to make a living." I wanted to know more.

How I Made My Resume More Visually Appealing

I’ve really come to value visual simplicity but my resume does not reflect it. I revised my resume to be more visually appealing and modern.

Pie for Those that Feel Down

Pie charts have become infamous in the data viz community and have been largely replaced with other visualization types. However, there are

Data Makeover: Gender Bias in Housework Persists

Academic research papers have certain requirements for tables and visualizations that do not align with best practices in data visualization

Visualization Struggles: Achievement Gap

I am participating in January's Storytelling With Data challenge of creating a small multiples chart. I work with education data a lot and o

Library Data Makeover: Using Color to Tell a Story

An interesting CNN article describes the New York Public Library’s most checked out books of all time. The article provides a list of the to

Taking Federal Grant Data from Dull to Dynamite with Custom Visualizations

If you’ve ever worked with publicly available government data, you probably know the headache and eye strain that comes with trying to make