/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/authors/erica-groshen/ Recent content on Digital.gov Hugo en-us /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/04/12/worth-a-thousand-words-announcing-ready-to-go-interactive-graphics-with-bls-news-releases/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:00:16 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/04/12/worth-a-thousand-words-announcing-ready-to-go-interactive-graphics-with-bls-news-releases/ Last spring I wrote about how we’ve been using more and better charts and maps to help you understand our statistics. Today I’m excited to tell you about a new set of graphical tools to make our news releases more illuminating at the moment of their posting. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/06/05/visualizing-bls-data-to-improve-understanding/ Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:00:28 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/06/05/visualizing-bls-data-to-improve-understanding/ If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s the value of a striking, cool chart or map of some BLS data? At the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), we’re always thinking of better ways to help our users understand the information we produce.