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VisWeek: Graphics and Infographics

Slides from my recent talk at the Visweek conference in Seattle, WA.

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VisWeek: Graphics and Infographics

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  1. Graphics, Infographics, and Data Visualization: An Economist’s Call for Better Visuals Jonathan A. Schwabish Congressional Budget Office jschwabi@yahoo.com @jschwabish October 2012 The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and should not be interpreted as those of the Congressional Budget Office.

  2. Graphics produced by economists, policy and budget analysts, government agencies… can be better

  3. Social Security Administration

  4. Klerman and Danielson, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011

  5. Social Security Administration

  6. Government Accountability Office

  7. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

  8. Bailey, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012

  9. Chinn 2011, LaFollette School WP No. 2012-006

  10. Sala, Soderstrom, and Trigara, NBER WP No. 18434, 2012

  11. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

  12. Bureau of Economic Analysis

  13. U.S. Census Bureau

  14. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

  15. U.S. Department of the Treasury

  16. Hanson, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2012

  17. U.S. Department of Agriculture

  18. Gokhale, Social Security: A Fresh Look at Policy Alternatives, 2010

  19. Social Security Advisory Board

  20. Modrek and Cullen, 14th Annual Joint Conference of the Retirement Research Consortium

  21. Sum = 98% Sum = 100% Social Security Administration

  22. Holden and Fontes, Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy, 2009

  23. Focus

  24. Expertise

  25. Knowledge

  26. CBO’s Infographic Demographic • Member of Congress Wants to get specific information on a topic, a broad overview, quick facts, or bullet points. • Congressional Staffer Wants to get data quickly. Might be briefing Member on topics outside usual areas of responsibility.

  27. CBO’s Infographics: Bring the most important information to the top

  28. Understanding the Fiscal Cliff 75 pages 10 pages

  29. The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures -Card, Mackinlay and Shneiderman (1999)

  30. Data Government Agencies Visualization

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