Tag: data visualisation

  • Prince, Prince, Goose?

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    Well, this wasn’t what I was expecting to post today. But that’s okay, because it’s big news all the same and allows me to get my hands dirty. Yesterday the Washington Post broke news that the United Arab Emirates, specifically Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and the UAE’s national security advisor, arranged a meeting between…

  • Metropolises of Murder

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    Quite a few things to look at this week. But I want to start with something that caught my attention last Friday. The Economist produced this graphic about the top-50 cities by the always pleasant metric of homicide. I bring it up because of the oft mentioned capital of carnage here in America: Chicago. (To…

  • It’s Warm Out Here Isn’t It?

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    I could have covered the pieces on Gorsuch or the budget—and we will get to those—but I wanted to cover some data released by the World Meteorological Organisation that puts 2016 as the warmest year on record. But that’s cool, climate change is a hoax. The graphic comes from a BBC article covering the news, and…

  • Wilders Wilts in the Netherlands

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    It’s a tulip joke, get it? Because the Netherlands. The point of today’s piece is that Geert Wilders, the anti-EU, anti-Muslim, populist leader of the Dutch Freedom Party did not upset Prime Minister Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), a centre-right party. Wilders had threatened to upset the status quo in the Netherlands…

  • Those Who Will Lose Subsidies for Trumpcare

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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,…

  • How Trumpcare Differs from Obamacare

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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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    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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    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…

  • Declining British Wages

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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…

  • Marine Le Pen’s Chances

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    Last Friday the Economist published this article about the odds of Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Front party, winning the French presidential election in April. You may recall I focused on other things last Friday. So today we have this graphic. But this morning news broke about new allegations over fraudulent claims by…