Tag: demographics

  • Old Healthcare Policy Renewal

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    Let’s start this week off with cartograms. Sometimes I like the idea, sometimes not so much. Here is a case where I really do not care for the New York Times’ visualisation of the data. Probably because the two cartograms, a before and after of health policy renewals, do not really allow for a great…

  • Explaining Why Some People Are Losing Their Health Insurance Plans

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    I have received a few questions in the non-blog world about why certain people have been receiving notices in the post that they are about to lose their insurance plans. The short answer for many of those people is that they likely bought individual, private plans and those plans fall short of the new minimum…

  • Differences in Population Growth and What That Means

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    Last week the Washington Post published a piece that looked at demographic trends and their impact on the world’s different geographies. None of the graphics in the piece are revolutionary, nor are they mind-blowing fantasticness. They are, however, clear and concise and show the story. In fact the overall piece is well done because while…

  • The Origin of Beer

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    Today’s post comes via Business Insider. They linked to work by reddit user sp07 who mapped out words used for common objects across Europe and then looked at those words by their origin. But of all words, this is probably the most important. Credit for the piece goes to sp07.

  • The Young and the Educated

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    Today’s piece comes from the National Journal. It is an interactive bubble chart that compares the educated class of cities in 1980 to those in 2010 (educated meaning the share of population with at least a bachelor’s degree). Not a whole lot to say about this one, in a good way. A nice summation at…

  • Scale of Syria’s Refugees

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    Brendan Barry
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    So that civil war in Syria thing, yeah, it’s still going on, folks. And lots of people—7,000,000 of them—have been forced to flee to either external or internal locations. Al Jazeera has attempted to put that number into context for Americans using US census data and maps. Here is a look at both Philadelphia and…

  • Virginia Election Results

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last night was election night. Okay, maybe not the big midterm, but there were still a few interesting races. The one I want to look at it, however, is the gubernatorial race in Virginia. Maps are pretty much the default in big, statewide races like these and it is no surprise that the three screenshots here…

  • Three Hops From Norway

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    Brendan Barry
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    The thing with the NSA spy scandal is not that it collects data on Americans. But it collects data on the Americans that the Americans that the Americans know. Three degrees of separation can actually be quite a few people whose privacy is violated in the name of security. The Guardian has an excellent piece…

  • Mapping Public Health Data

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    Today’s piece maps and charts comes from the Illinois Department of Public Health. The piece combines maps and charting components to detail preventable hospitalisations and emergency room use in the state of Illinois. Ordinarily I would prefer just one map, however, in this case the designers realised that a regional map—with its larger surface area—need…

  • Looking for my Lego Thomas Malthus Figure

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    Brendan Barry
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    Because Friday. And because Lego. Here you have xkcd. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.