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  • Facebook This Weekend

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    It’s Friday—about time I know. So let’s celebrate by looking ahead to your Saturday via Jessica Hagy and This is Indexed. Credit for the piece goes to Jessica Hagy.

  • Smoking in the US

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    Today’s piece comes from the Washington Post and looks at the prevalence of smoking in the United States and its change over time. Credit for the piece goes to Richard Johnson.

  • The Decline of the Boeing 747

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    This weekend I flew to and from Philadelphia—that is when my flights were not delayed. So I decided to select an aircraft-related graphic for today’s piece, originally from Quartz. It looks at the phasing out of the iconic Boeing 747. (And as for me, well I was on a 737-900 and a CRJ-700—neither as iconic…

  • Unemployment Rates

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    Today’s post is a New York Times piece that looks at state levels of unemployment. In particular, whether states have returned to pre-Recession levels of employment. (Spoiler, they have not.) Credit for the piece goes to Alicia Parlapiano.

  • Understanding the Boston Subway System

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    Today’s post is the graduate work of Michael Barry and Brian Card of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The two looked at the available public data of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)—the T to those that know—to better understand the Boston area subway system. Here the subway system refers to the heavy rail lines, i.e. the…

  • Viewing the Economy All at Once

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    Normally I try to reserve Fridays for the lighter stuff. But yesterday, the New York Times published a really fantastic piece about how the Great Recession changed the American economy through job growth or loss in each sector of the economy. Naturally this sounds very difficult because the American economy is both very large and…

  • Carbon Emissions

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    President Obama announced new regulations to be enforced by the EPA that aim to reduce carbon emissions. Principally, the expected reduction will come through state-by-state measures to meet new federally mandated targets. Each state will have the ability to find different means of achieving the cuts, e.g. building more solar plants or nuclear plants or…

  • How Africa Tweets

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    Today’s piece is hit and miss. It comes from the World Economic Forum and the subject matter is the use of Twitter across Africa. I think the subject matter is interesting; mobile communication technology is changing Africa drastically. The regional trends shown in the map at the core of the piece are also fascinating. Naturally…

  • Home Ownership

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    I am pretty much a sucker for small multiples. And so today I present a good one from the Washington Post. The story starts looking at the broad, national scope of the issue. And from there it breaks home ownership down by state. Credit for the piece goes to the Washington Post’s graphics department.

  • Wisconsin Politics

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    Today we dive into state-level politics north of Chicago, in the state of Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an in-depth article looking at the political divide in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. While one could publish an article of that nature with just lots and lots of words, the Journal Sentinel chose to use maps…