Tag: demographics

  • The Gap in University Admissions

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    The New York Times has recently done good work with interactive infographics that weave a narrative through their chosen form of data visualisation. I covered one such work back in February that looked at girls in science. Today, a similarly structured piece looks at university admissions and graduation rates for ethnic minorities. Navigation in the…

  • Mobile Phones

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Earlier this year, the mobile phone (or cell phone for many Americans) turned 40. Today’s infographic comes from the National Post and looks at the history and the near future of the mobile phone market, mobile phones, and related technologies. A nice touch is a actual-scale drawing (best seen in print) comparing a modern iPhone…

  • Nate Silver Predicts the Presidential Election

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Of 2048. Well, kind of. Lately the country has been talking a lot about immigration and its impacts because of this bipartisan desire to achieve some kind of result on an immigration bill working its way through the Senate. One of the common thoughts is that if we legalise a whole bunch of illegals or…

  • Asian Immigration

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Today I have more immigration-related information graphics and data visualisation for you. Earlier this week the New York Times looked at immigration to California, but this time the focus was on Asian population growth and not Hispanic. The graphic here supports an article looking at where the growth has been focused in California. And given…

  • The Republicans and Hispanic Voters

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Following on last week’s posts on immigration comes today’s post on how that might impact Republican politics. Well I say might but pretty much mean definitely. The graphic comes from the Wall Street Journal and it takes a look at the demographic makeup of states, House congressional districts and then survey data on immigration broken into Republicans…

  • Analysing Your (Facebook) Social Networks

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Earlier this week, Wolfram Alpha released some findings from its analytics project on Facebook. While the results offer quite a bit to digest, the use of some data visualisation makes it a little bit easier. And a lot more interesting. The results offer quite a bit of detail on interests, relationship statuses, geographic locations, and…

  • Integrating Latino Immigrants into the United States

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Following from yesterday’s post about the undocumented immigrant paths to citizenship, today’s post is a graphic from a New York Times article that looks at the integration of Latinos into the United States vis-a-vis all immigrants. Credit for the piece goes to the New York Times.

  • Cartograms

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Continuing this week’s map theme, we have an example of a cartogram from the New York Times. This piece supplements an article about how some manufacturing companies are starting to look away from China as a place for their facilities. There are two maps, the first (not shown here) looks at economic output overall. The…

  • Choropleth Maps

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    Keeping with maps, they can be useful, but all too often people fall back upon them because it is a quick and easy way of displaying data for geographic entities. This graphic from the New York Times on ADHD is not terribly complex, but it uses a map effectively. The article discusses how ADHD rates…

  • Proposed Expansion of Massachusetts Railway Network

    —

    by

    Brendan Barry
    in

    When we talk about new rail projects, or even highway or airport expansions, we like to include maps of new routes and destinations. In that sense this map from the New York Times is not new. However, we often forget in such visualisations that we have the opportunity to add layers of information that show…