Tag: infographic

  • Great Britain by an American

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    I am forever an Anglophile. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • The David Petraeus Clusterfuck

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    This is sort of an early Friday post that follows up from my post on David Petraeus yesterday. Today’s comes from Hilary Sargent, once of the Boston Globe. It diagrams the network that ultimately resulted in the conviction I mentioned yesterday. For President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign to run so heavily against Secretary Clinton for mishandling classified…

  • David Petraeus for Secretary of State—No

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    I am very closely following the transition of power from President Obama to President-elect Trump. And one of the very surprising news stories has been that Trump is considering David Petraeus for Secretary of State. Given the controversy and campaign rhetoric against and surrounding Hillary Clinton for alleged mishandling of classified information as Secretary of…

  • Diversity in America

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    Today’s post is a choropleth map from the Washington Post examining diversity in the United States and how fast or slow diversity is expanding. Normally with two variables one goes instantly to the scatter plot. But here the Post explored the two variables geographically. And it holds up. The colours are perhaps the only part…

  • Trump’s Potential Conflicts of Interest

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    President-elect Donald Trump was correct when he stated that the president is often exempt from conflicts of interest while in office. However, he is not exempt from the emolument clause of the Constitution. Put simply, the president cannot receive money or gifts from foreign governments. The whole not being beholden to a foreign power thing.…

  • Andy Murray

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    A changeup from the political coverage, here we have sportsball! And by sportsball I mean tennis, if you did not get that from today’s post title. Andy Murray won the ATP World Tour finals, and with it won the number one seed in tennis, displacing Novak Djokovic. Nothing super fancy going on here, just a line…

  • Mexican Immigration

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    So following on from my Wednesday post, let’s take another look at the “problem” of Mexican immigration. Because as these graphics from the Pew Research Center show, it’s not really a problem these days. Instead, immigration is down. Credit for the piece goes to the Pew Research Center graphics department.

  • How Healthy Is It?

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    Happy Friday after the election. Now that we have had our fill on sweets and bitters, we probably need to move towards a more balanced, more moderate diet. A couple of months ago the New York Times put together this scatter plot from the difference between public and nutritionist opinion on whether certain common foods are…

  • Trumpland vs. Clintonopolis

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    I was not sure if I wanted to file this under either my humourous Friday posts or my regular weekday posts, but I ultimately decided to go with the weekly postings. Why? It’s simply a different way of visualising the election results, by separating the two camps into two separate Americas. One is the geography…

  • Deportation of Immigrants

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    Donald Trump announced how he wants to deport 2–3 million undocumented immigrants that have criminal convictions or that belong to gangs. I read up on the issue at FiveThirtyEight and came across the following graphic from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). However, when I review the graphic, I found it difficult to understand…