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Showing posts with label graphics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphics. Show all posts
Thursday, September 15, 2016

From XKCD: A History of the United States Congress

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One of the great graphics of all time. It's worth devoting an entire class. - Click here for the full version .
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

From the Federalist: How RFRA Works, Explained In One Chart

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- Click here for the accompanying article .
Friday, January 22, 2016

Spurious Correlations

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One of the articles in the post below linked to this site. It's worth posting separately because at some point I'll ask students to ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Looking ahead to the visual communications assessment

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Friday, January 23, 2015

From Vox: The real state of the union, in 33 maps and charts

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If you like maps and charts, you'll like this page. - Click here for it . It contains info about both the state of the union and the rel...
Friday, January 31, 2014

From the New Republic: 17 Charts About Economic Inequality Obama Should Read Before The State of The Union

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More background on the nature of inequality in the US in handy charts and graphs . A few highlights:
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Restless America

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Click here for a nice interactive graphic showing which states people are moving from and to. Here's the full static picture, and com...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

What information do we really respond to?

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The Dish flags a blog , which flags a UNC study about what types of information people best respond to. We might be told how many calories a...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

A map of the Korean Peninsula and the surrounding area

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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Visualizing Economics

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I stumbled across a site that specializes on graphical displays of economic data: Visualizing Economics . This is a compilation of graphics ...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

I like how this looks

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The subject matter is immaterial to us, but this is very well done. I'd rip the style off if I had the skills.
Friday, January 25, 2013

Introducing Newsbound

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I linked to their slides on the filibuster below, but here's a link to their website, which has a lot more. Like I said below, I wish my...
Friday, January 4, 2013

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From visual.ly , a graphical depiction of the ideological history of the Supreme Court from 1937-2007:
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

From Forbes: The Year in Health Care Charts

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A nice collection . Some highlights: Which types of physicians are compensated the most? Note that pediatricians are compensated less than a...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Causes of death by age group

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This graph wasn't in Klein's list of year important year-ending graphs, but he calls it the most chilling . It shows where guns plac...

Children from wealthy families earm increasingly more than children from poorer families

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This graph was offered by MIT economics professor Michael Greenstone: This graph shows that children born to families on the high end of th...

Social mobility declines as income mobility increases

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This graph was suggested by Cynthia Freeland: “This is my graph of the year — known as The Great Gatsby Curve. The Great Gatsby Curve d...

The last few times the budget was in surplus, revenues were

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Suggested by outgoing Senator Kent Conrad. This chart demonstrates that additional revenue has to be part of any deficit reduction pa...

From the Washington Post: The year in graphs

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Ezra Klein asked some smart people to offer their selections for the graph of the year - the ones that explaining a major contemporary issue...