Category: Infographic

  • Those Who Will Lose Subsidies for Trumpcare

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    Brendan Barry
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    As much as I like trains…we need to get back to Trumpcare. As you probably know, it will cover fewer people than Obamacare. Just how many fewer people? Somewhere in the ten to twenty million range. The poor, the elderly, and the sick are those who will be worse off. Because the poor, the elderly,…

  • Building New Railways in America

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    Brendan Barry
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    I wasn’t expecting this piece to fall into the queue for today, but you all know me as a sucker for trains. So today we have this nice set of small multiples from the Guardian. It looks at…I guess we could call it train deserts. They’re like food deserts, except we’re talking about trains. What…

  • How Trumpcare Differs from Obamacare

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    Brendan Barry
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    We are going to have a busy week this week. From the CBO release on Trumpcare costs and coverage to the elections in the Netherlands. Oh, and it might snow a wee bit here in Philadelphia and the East Coast. So let’s dive straight into today’s post, an article all the way from the West…

  • Box Plot Charts

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    Brendan Barry
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    Posting lighter-themed content on Fridays seems all the more important now. So here’s this Friday: a piece on box plots from xkcd. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • UK Spring Budget

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    Brendan Barry
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    The British government is delivering its budget statement today. So as a teaser, the Guardian published this article with six charts to help understand where things are at. Chart-wise there is nothing radical or revolutionary here, but I have a soft spot for articles driven by data visualisation. Credit for the piece goes to the…

  • North Korea’s Missile Programme

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    Brendan Barry
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    So here’s how this week was supposed to go. I was going to write about the Northern Irish election Monday and then Tuesday was going to be a piece from the New York Times that looked at the public’s concerns facing an incoming president. This piece I was going to save for later. But then…

  • Northern Ireland Assembly Election Results

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    Brendan Barry
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    Friday was election day across Northern Ireland as voters elected their representatives for the assembly at Stormont. The headline results: the Nationalists have gained significant ground on the Unionists. The Guardian captured the tallies in this results page. Credit for the piece goes to the Guardian’s graphics department.

  • Get to Dam Work

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    Brendan Barry
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    Sorry, not sorry. But also, sorry. This piece was supposed to go up Wednesday after President Trump’s speech where he announced he’d like to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure. But it didn’t post, so you will get two today. This article from the New York Times dates from about a week or so ago at…

  • Declining British Wages

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    Brendan Barry
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    Now for the actual piece for today. We have a scatterplot from the Financial Times that looks at wage and economic growth across the OECD, focusing on the exception that is the United Kingdom. And that is not an exception in the good sense. The UK had the rare privilege of experiencing economic growth—that’s good—while…

  • US Foreign Aid

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    Brendan Barry
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    One of the big news stories yesterday centred on the Trump administration’s budget outline that would expand US defence spending by 9%, or $54 billion. That is quite a lot of money. More worrying, however, was the draft’s directive that it be accompanied by equal spending cuts in neither security nor entitlement programmes like Social Security…