{"id":23441,"date":"2025-04-29T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvsnightingstg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=23441"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:48:17","slug":"art-of-the-trump-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightingaledvs.com\/art-of-the-trump-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Trump Tracker:\u00a0How Data Viz Can Combat News Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Since coming into office for his second term, President Donald Trump has issued more than 124 executive orders\u2014with nearly as many lawsuits filed in response. Much like the early days of Covid, the data viz community is being asked to make sense of this tidal wave of new information. Data viz practitioners are responding to the challenge in different ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Impact Project and similar organizations are focused on mapping the <a href=\"https:\/\/theimpactproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regional impacts of federal employee firings<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceimpacts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">science funding cuts<\/a>. The Washington Post put out an innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2025\/trump-administration-actions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">choose-your-own-adventure flowchart<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2025\/03\/04\/trump-executive-orders-actions-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calendar-based tracker<\/a> of executive orders.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the months have dragged on, most news agencies have defaulted to standardized and easily-editable tables and drop-down menus by topic. Each news outlet is faced with the same dilemma: What information do you provide and how much of it? Every graphics editor has had to dust off their notes on cognitive load and come up with their own solutions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most data viz practitioners will agree that less is more here. Give people the topic, a short description, and a simple status update. This is a tracker, not a full story, after all. Simple data viz designs ensure the tracker is easy to use and update\u2014<strong><em>but is it actually easier to understand than a full story?&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For executive orders that have been blocked by a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order, do you opt for concrete legal language or go with something more relatable like \u201cblocked for now?\u201d For lawsuits that have been filed, but no action has yet been taken by the courts, do you go with the literal \u201clawsuit filed,\u201d or the more descriptive \u201cawaiting decision\/in progress.\u201d And in the multiple cases where the Trump administration appears to be defying court orders, do you note that in some way? What about threats against judges?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are hard calls to make and I genuinely appreciated seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/projects\/trump-campaign-promise-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AP<\/a> be honest about this with a category on their tracker called, \u201cIt\u2019s complicated.\u201d In some respects, that uncertainty <strong><em>should<\/em><\/strong> be reflected in our data visualizations, lest we normalize what is an incredibly abnormal time in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my own work at KUOW, NPR\u2019s Seattle station, I sought to answer two simple questions for our audience: (1) How are Trump\u2019s orders impacting people in Washington state and (2) What is the state doing about it? I made a conscious choice not to build this tracker for lawyers. They don\u2019t need it. That means everything in my tracker had to come back to my top two questions without relying on legalese. I landed on three status options. At any point in time, a Trump executive order could be: In effect, partially in effect, or not in effect.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"62\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dvsnightingale.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.40.45-AM-1024x88.png?resize=720%2C62&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.40.45-AM.png?resize=1024%2C88&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.40.45-AM.png?resize=300%2C26&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.40.45-AM.png?resize=768%2C66&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.40.45-AM.png?resize=450%2C39&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.40.45-AM.png?resize=800%2C69&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.40.45-AM.png?resize=250%2C21&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.40.45-AM.png?resize=550%2C47&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.40.45-AM.png?w=1326&amp;ssl=1 1326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>By limiting myself to the actual outcome of these orders, I was able to highlight how executive actions benefit from the slow pace of the court system. As cases wait in limbo, the laws that fueled them are in effect and impacting Americans. The \u201cpartially in effect\u201d status allowed me to capture the messiness of these court battles. In the case of fired federal employees, two similar cases were being heard simultaneously. In one case, the court required fired employees in 19 states to be reinstated. In another case, the court required fired employees within 6 agencies to be reinstated. For Washington state, that meant some employees would be reinstated while others would not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our newsroom also made the choice to add the tag, \u201cTrump is possibly defying the courts\u201d to our list of options. This was after significant discussion about the importance of presenting the news as it stands, uncertainty and all. Turmoil and all.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"444\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dvsnightingale.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.49.02-AM.png?resize=444%2C438&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.49.02-AM.png?w=444&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.49.02-AM.png?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.49.02-AM.png?resize=70%2C70&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.49.02-AM.png?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1 48w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.49.02-AM.png?resize=250%2C247&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.49.02-AM.png?resize=182%2C180&amp;ssl=1 182w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nightingaledvs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-23-at-8.49.02-AM.png?resize=304%2C300&amp;ssl=1 304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My Trump tracker has gone through a few iterations\u2014and will no doubt continue to evolve\u2014but for now, it serves as a landing post for our Washington state audience to understand how they intersect with these big national stories. 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