Tag: choropleth

  • Trump-won Counties Are Winning

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    Yesterday we looked at how China and the European Union are planning their tariff/trade war retaliation to target Trump voters. Today let’s take a look at how those voters are doing as this article from Bloom does. The article is not terribly complicated. We have four choropleth maps at the county level. Two of the maps isolate Trump-won…

  • Trade War Retaliation

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    Brendan Barry
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    About a week and a half ago the Economist published an article about the retaliatory actions of the European Union and China against the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. Of course last week we had a theme of sorts with lineages and ancestry. So this week, back to the fun stuff. What makes today’s…

  • The Great Migration Map

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    Brendan Barry
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    Yesterday in a post about Angela’s forced journey from Africa to Jamestown I mentioned that the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Bay just one year later in 1620. From 1620 until 1640 approximately 20,000 people left England and other centres like Leiden in the Netherlands for New England. Unlike places like Jamestown that were founded primarily…

  • Carbon Taxes

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last week the New York Times published an article about carbon taxes, looking at their adoption around the world and their effectiveness. It is a fascinating article about how different countries have chosen to implement the broad policy idea and the various forms it can take. And, most importantly, how some of those policies can end…

  • Regions of German Nationalism

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    Brendan Barry
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    The Economist has an interesting piece looking at the areas of support for the far-right AfD German political party, arguably a neo-fascist nationalist party. It turns out that The piece does a great job of setting the case through the demographics map at the top of the piece. It shows how the two areas where…

  • The World Grows On and On

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    Brendan Barry
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    I mentioned this this time last year, but I used to make a lot of datagraphics about GDP growth. The format here has not changed and so there is nothing new to look at there. But, the content is still interesting. And the accompanying Economist article makes the point that high growth rates are not…

  • PECO Outages Five Years Ago

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    Brendan Barry
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    Christmas time is a time when people receive gifts. Well this year was no different and I received a few. One, however, was in a box stuffed with old newspaper pages. And it turns out one of said pages had a graphic on it. So let us spend today looking at this little blast from…

  • Election Day

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    Brendan Barry
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    The 2018 midterm elections are finally here. Thankfully for political nerds like myself, the New York Times homepage had a link to a guide of when what polls close (as early as 18.00 Eastern). It makes use of small multiples to show when states close and then afterwards which states have closed and which remain…

  • Where People Vote

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    Brendan Barry
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    Voting is not compulsory in the United States. Consequently a big part of the strategy for winning is increasing your voters’ turnout and decreasing that of your opponent. In other words, demotivate your opponent’s supporters whilst simultaneously motivating your own base. But what does that baseline turnout map look like? Well, thankfully the Washington Post created…

  • Pages of Polls and Forecasts

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    Brendan Barry
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    We are now one week away from the midterm elections here in the United States. Surprisingly, we are going to be looking at election-y things over the course of the next week or so. But before we delve into that, I wanted to focus on the homepage for FiveThirtyEight, the below screenshot is from my…