NOTE: I am publishing this in August 2023 although it was in a final draft state in December 2021. Out of a obvious need for editing as well as the shock from the Marshall Fires, I delayed publishing editing for so long that it no longer felt relevant to share…

This is a list of resources that showcase excellent (and terrible!) examples of data visualization and storytelling. Publications NYTimes Upshot FiveThirytEight Newsletters Data and Eggs Graphic Content Numlock News Data is Plural Fair Warning ODI The Week in Data Quantum of Sollazzo Online communities r/DataIsBeautiful r/DataIsUgly Blogs Information is Beautiful Flowing Data Visualizing Data Junk Charts

Dear Rep. Joe Neguse, I write to convey my profound concerns about the federal government’s unconscionable administrative delays in approving a COVID-19 vaccine for children under five. Like you, I am the father of a three-year-old. While vaccines have been approved for adults since December 2020 and for children above…

Introduction Members of the United States Congress are given budgets to run their offices, pay for staff, and travel. How Members of Congress spend their budgets could say a lot about how they translate their professed political values into action. Do Republicans who ostensibly believe in fiscal conservativism spend less than…

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused some of the largest disruptions to society’s routines in recent memory. Major League Baseball (MLB) was not immune from these disruptions and had its first non-strike-shortened season since World War II. The 2020 MLB season was also remarkable because no attendance was permitted during the…

I have collated a list of resources about data cleaning and analysis, data visualization, data communication and storytelling, and data journalism. You can also check out my List of Lists of Datasets. Data Cleaning and Analysis Chen, D. (2018). Pandas for Everyone: Python Data Analysis. Elgabry, O. (2019). “The Ultimate Guide to Data Cleaning.”…

This course teaches students how to communicate the findings from their data analyses and to understand the ethics and implications of data communication and storytelling. Students will develop their computational skills for reshaping, analyzing, summarizing, and visualizing quantitative data using Python’s scientific libraries. Students will also develop their communication skills…

Hearst’s yellow journalism. FDR’s fireside chats. The Nixon-Kennedy debates. Obama’s 2008 campaign. New communication technologies shape American politics. Much of our attention focuses on candidates and campaigns at the national level, but the local politics of school boards, zoning commissions, health departments, and city councils have far greater impacts on…

This course prepares students to manipulate and analyze data and to communicate their findings to a lay audience. Students will learn six fundamental data analysis techniques and will demonstrate their mastery of these techniques through self-directed data analyses. …