Instead of just looking at charts, as if they were mere illustrations, we must learn to read them and interpret them correctly. Alberto...

If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows...

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We recently released a final report, prepared by Allen Lang and Frances Astorian, from a Housing Data Project analyzing the change in...

One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the...

Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks (2021), by Jonathan Schwabish (Senior Fellow at the Urban...

For the last academic year, we worked with researchers from the University of Virginia to use the Internet of Things in examining air...