Tyler FieldMigration patterns of the US taxpayerI recently found an interesting dataset issued by the IRS. It shows the number of taxpayers filing as individuals who moved from one county…Sep 18, 2017Sep 18, 2017
Tyler FieldAdventures in Amateur Cartographyor, Making a map I couldn’t find anywhere elseAug 29, 2017Aug 29, 2017
Tyler FieldOne Thing Leads to AnotherSometimes I pose questions just to figure out if I can answer them.Aug 23, 2017Aug 23, 2017
Tyler FieldAnswers at the speed of nowA random, rambling late-night conversation with my housemate last week made me want to create a chart of the length of time US Presidents…Jul 25, 2017Jul 25, 2017
Tyler FieldUn-Quantified SelfLast week I went to yoga on Monday and I felt like I was super productive on Tuesday. Wednesday, not so much. Friday when I was walking to…Nov 25, 2015Nov 25, 2015
Tyler FieldLet Us Now Praise Open Data and FOSSOr, Everything I Needed to Know About Geometry I Learned from King’s Quest VINov 19, 2015Nov 19, 2015
Tyler FieldChoropleths are cool.But they don’t communicate information very well. (See here, here, and here as some beginning reading.) Smart people talk about this issue…Nov 10, 2015Nov 10, 2015
Tyler FieldCan we all stop using gradients on bar charts?The other day I came across a bar chart on the Internet that looked like it was made in 1997. Each bar was filled in with a gradient from…Oct 22, 2015Oct 22, 2015