Tag: calendar chart

  • More Mass Shootings Than Days in the Year

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    Brendan Barry
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    A week on from the San Bernadino shootings, I want to touch on the frequency of mass shootings in the United States. This chart from the Washington Post’s blog Wonkblog looks at when mass shootings occurred in the States. And as of  2 December, 355 shootings in 336 days. That’s more than one mass shooting…

  • A Timeline of Deaths in Syria

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    Brendan Barry
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    The civil war in Syria rages on. The following graphic from the New York Times accompanies the article and uses a calendar-style timeline to look at the mounting death toll. The visualisation type appears more and more often for time-based data sets shaped around days; we all (usually) understand how calendars work and are shaped.…