VisWeek: Graphics and Infographics

Graphics, Infographics, and Data Visualization: An Economist’s Call for Better Visuals Jonathan A. Schwabish Congressional Budget Office jschwabi@yahoo.com @jschwabish October 2012The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and shouldnot be interpreted as those of the Congressional Budget Office.

Graphics produced byeconomists, policy and budgetanalysts, government agencies…can be better

Social Security Administration

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

Social Security Administration

Government Accountability Office

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Bailey, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012

Chinn 2011, LaFollette School WP No. 2012-006

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

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Bureau of Economic Analysis

U.S. Census Bureau

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

U.S. Department of the Treasury

Hanson, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2012

U.S. Department of Agriculture

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

Social Security Advisory Board

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

Sum = 98% Sum = 100% Social Security Administration

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

Expertise

Knowledge

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.

CBO’s Infographics:Bring the most importantinformation to the top

Understanding the Fiscal Cliff 75 pages 10 pages

The purpose of visualizationis insight, not pictures -Card, Mackinlay and Shneiderman (1999)

Data GovernmentVisualization Agencies

http://jgecian.wordpress.com	82
http://visualoop.com	21
http://trendnet.com.mx	11
https://twitter.com	9
http://feeds.feedburner.com	3

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