Jacque Schrag

@jacqueschrag.com

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Journalist-engineer at Polygraph/The Pudding. Formerly Axios and CSIS. Builder of websites, data visualizations, and pixel cats. She/her.

A pie chart showing the different types of twilight. The top 50% of the circle is day light. The bottom half is arranged so the 3 types of twilight "slices" take up 18 degrees on both sides and "night" takes up the remaining space in the circle. The slices are arranged so the middle of the circle looks like the earth's horizon and the slices are disappearing into the vanishing point.
Florence and the Machine perform on stage. Florence stands in the middle, with a video projection of her face on the screen behind her. The lighting bathes everything in red.
A graphic showing nine artists that are returning to headline tours in the U.S. after at least five years from their last U.S. tour. Sugar is returning after 31 years, Hilary Duff after 18, the Pussycat Dolls and Chapterhouse after 15. The Cab and Times New Viking are both returning after 13 years; Rush after 10 years; and Robyn, Lily Allen and Ariana Grande after six years.
Landra the black lab in a blue and teal raincoat. She is out for a walk, and is looking back at the camera. There are snow flakes accumulating on her head.
A zoomed in view of the Bluesky Map showing where the Data Visualization community sits in relation to other groups like "Geospatial professionals & cartographers." Jacque Schrag's account is highlighted.
A map of Virginia's current congressional districts. As the video plays, a slider moves revealing the new borders for the 2026 proposed congressional map.
Landra the black lab running around in a backyard covered in snow wearing a blue raincoat.
Inside Hard Rock Stadium looking down at the field from a seat in the upper southwest corner.
Landra the black lab laying in the back seat of a car. She is contained in a dog hammock and her head is resting on a mesh panel between the two front seats so her muzzle is pointed up and in the air at a silly angle. She has one eye half open.
Photo taken in the summer time of me standing behind my grandfather and grandmother.
A bar chart from Pew Research showing the % of U.S. adults that have ever used specific social media sites. YouTube has the most at 84%. Facebook is 71% and Instagram is 50%.
A bingo card of 24 phrases related to Santa Fe's "Fiesta" bingo, including "oyster shot", "broke a chancla," and "get lost from your group."
A cross stitch of a smiling pumpkin with a black witches hat. It is surrounded by green leaves and other orange and yellow flowers.
Jacque wearing a black shirt with an “I voted! Arlington” sticker on the right.
A purple Burger King crown sitting on a table where people are eating a meal at Burger King.
Landra the black lab laying on a white and blue striped blanket. The sun is shining and her fur looks exceptionally shiny. She has caramel colored eyes and is looking directly into the camera.
A chart showing variations in bust, waist and hip ratios for women's clothing sizes extra small through double extra large. Across brands, the same "size" can vary wildly in measurements.
Screenshot of the Department of Defense home page. A recent news article is titled “Nation to Mark Patriot Day with Tributes.”
View from a rooftop infinite pool overlooking a bunch of tropical foliage and a golf course. The Gulf of Mexico is in the background.
Two books on a table: “Chart” by Nadieh Bremer and “Questions in Dataviz” by Neil Richards.
A work in progress cross stitch project. There are two pink sections, one of which is an almost finished leaf.
A room lit with green lightening. In the foreground is a wood sign post that has signs pointing in various directions that say “Camp”, “Latrine”, “Tomb”, and “Danger! Panther cave.” In the background are house plants and photos on a fireplace.
Screenshot from Wendy's site that reads, "My first test of multi-color printing features central Shanghai - a 6x6km area with rivers, roads, forests... and a few bridges. Do you notice the (red circle) ring road at the center? That area is the old town of Shanghai." Below the text are side by side images of the front and back of the 2d printed map. The front side shows a city layout of Shanghai with the roads in red, land in tan, and river in blue. And the back has a faded out print of the river and Chinese characters on it.
A PDF that reads “LATRINE CAMP” in stencil lettering.
A pink bar chart with population numbers of the most populous countries. As the window is resized, the bars begin to grow and expand outside of their parent container in a buggy way.
Landra the black lab smiling. There is a stuffed blue octopus sitting on her head.
Screenshot of 4 Instagram slides. The first slide starts with a legend of the 5 categories of events. Below it, an S shaped timeline starts on January 20. There are colored dots along the timeline path. The second slide starts with February, and it's designed so it connects to the January slide. The third slide is March, and the fourth slide is April.
A wasp-looking creature stuck between a glass door and a bug net in front of the door looking for a way out.
Two text messages. The first one says, “19 minutes is only slightly shorter than two play through of All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version). That's nothing!” The reply is “I'm not familiar with that reference... perhaps if you compared it to Rush's 2112 or Hemispheres I'd get your point... =)”
A white baby onesie that has a line chart on it where one axis is labeled “FA” and the other “FO” with a line going directly up and to the right. Below it reads text that says “Baby’s first chart.”
A basic web page with an input box labeled "message" that contains a string of numbers as code. Below it is a section labeled "key". Each group of letters is broken out into their own column, and below each number in the group is the list of possible letters that number represents on a phone keypad. Selected letters are highlighted because I picked them as the answer while decoding the message. The decoded message below reads "My eyes are green with envy. I wear the hue for all to see. If you [want] to stop the killing first you must catch me."
A checkbox input with a label that reads “My intraday X axis is broken (stock charts only)”
A row of 5 spirals that are made up of individual dots colored gray and shades of green. Each spiral has the same number of total dots. The first spiral is the lightest green and has the least amount of colored dots scattered throughout the spiral. The third spiral has the most green dots and the longest streak of green dots in a row, followed by the fourth spiral.
A minimal line chart that has been designed to look like a rollercoaster. There are 5 rows, with the first four going the full width of the screen and the last one only a quarter of the width. The track is brown, and there are A-frame supports holding up the track along its entire length. At the very end of the track is a yellow cart getting ready to take off into the air as it comes over a peak.
A data art piece with 1,500 small circles. The circles are a mixture of empty, partially filled in, and completely filled using a green-blue color palette. Each filled in quarter is a different color. The most common type of circle is one that is half filled, but there is no pattern to the data.
Landra the black lab falling asleep using my feet as a headrest/support.
Senator Chuck Schumer giving a press conference. He is pointing at a poster that has an Axios logo and a title of “Trump-voting states have more to lose if Education Department dismantled.” There is a map below it where states are colored in dark or light purple based on how much funding they get from the Department. Trump-voting states do get more funding.
Screenshot of a vector file of a world map with the conic-equal-area projection applied open in Adobe Illustrator showing all of the individual country layers.
A black lab covered lightly in snow in a snowy yard as more snow falls. The dog is looking at the camera and there is snow on their nose.
Screenshot of an email subject line from Uber that reads “Enjoy 20% off your next Black…”
A work in progress cross stitch of the aurora, mostly in blue and purple colors.
A side by side photo of Landra the black lab cuddling on a couch in 2020 and in 2025. She is smaller in the 2020 photo, but still has the same eyes and posture.
A code example showing how setting `en-GB` vs `en-US` when using JavaScript's `Intl.ListFormat()` function changes the output. When using `en-US`, the Oxford comma is used. It is not used when using `en-GB`.
Landra the black lab laying in the back seat of a car. Her head is tilted up with her nose resting on the back of the driver’s seat.
A column chart showing the number of letters adopted through USPS Operation Santa each year from 2018 to 2023, where the columns are made out of stacks of red and cream envelopes. The number of letters has grown from 3,700 in 2018 to almost 35,000 in 2023.
A screenshot of a Slack message posted by me on Tuesday the 17th that says, "I will let you and [name] duke it out as to who would like to write a script for this: (R logo) vs. (Python logo)."
Landra the black lab laying on a beige blanket on top of my legs.
A visual about the average number of cup holders that can be found on electric boats grouped by whether they are made by North American or European makers. North American boat makers have an average of 12.8 while European makers have an average of 6.3. Instead of columns, the data is represented as stacks of red solo cups on top of an electric boat icon.
A U.S. congressional map animating into a cartogram version and back again.
A screenshot of a project directory in VS code of our elections dashboard. In a "routes" directory, there are two subdirectories, "dashboard" and "embeds" which are further organized by type of race (eg. president, senate, etc.).
A screenshot of a list of components in an "Elections" section of a component library. It includes a documentation page and components for "District", "Election table", "Headshot", "House Table", "Legend", "Live timer", "Opposing Bars", and "State county map."
A partial view of a grid of tables showing the 2024 Senate election results by state. There is a search bar to find a specific race. Each table includes the top two candidates, a checkmark indicating who was the winner, and the number and percentage of votes each candidate received.
A 2024 presidential election map where the states are colored red or blue depending on the candidate that won the state.
A work in progress cross stitch project. The pattern is 8 boxes in a grid, each with a different black work pattern. The top row are gradient pinks and the second is gradient purples.
A 3D printed monstera plant that doubles as coasters.
The book “Terrible Maps: Hilarious Maps for a Ridiculous World” by Michael Howe.
A data viz showing the states of Arizona, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina. Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin elected candidates of different parties to president and senate/governor. In many of these states, Trump was elected president while a Democrat was elected to senate/governor.
A map of U.S. electoral votes in the 2024 election.
A screenshot of text that says “how does this election work?”