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  • Supreme Court’s Real Impact on Health Insurance

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    In a small piece, the New York Times looks at the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. Fewer people are insured and total cost for the programme falls.

  • England and Wales: 500k More People Than Expected

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    Brendan Barry
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    Census data fascinates me from a data visualisation perspective; one can look at it so many different ways. Last week I looked at some of the Slovakian census data on the Carpatho-Rusyns that live in the northeastern mountains of Slovakia. But yesterday, the British Office of National Statistics released the results from their census of…

  • The Future of Those Without Health Insurance

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    As the Supreme Court is likely to scrap the mandate provision of the health care law—without which sick people are left to pay higher premiums if they can get coverage at all—later today, the New York Times looks at the impact of removing the health care law changes the number of people without health insurance.…

  • Greece vs. Germany

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    Brendan Barry
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    It appears as if the Greeks, who voted in parliamentary elections for the second time in as many months, have narrowly voted for pro-bailout parties. But whether the pro-bailout parties can put aside their other political differences and form a coalition government remains to be seen. Until we see that, thanks to the National Post,…

  • Canadian Military Spending

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    Brendan Barry
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    Canada is spending more than ever on its military. The question is, to what end? Canada shares a land border with only two countries. And one of them is us… From the National Post comes an infographic looking at the rising expenditures on defence and how it currently ranks in the world. Credit for the…

  • Cracking Down on Unemployment Benefit Fraud (in Canada)

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    Brendan Barry
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    Nobody likes people cheating the unemployment system for benefits. Especially Canadians apparently. So this is a proposal to encourage the unemployed to start working. Credit for the piece goes to Steve Murray.

  • Economic Development in Africa

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    Brendan Barry
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    This falls under the just-because-it’s-about-geographies-doesn’t-mean-it-should-necessarily-be-visualised-as-a-map category. The Guardian has taken data from the African Economic Outlook, specifically real GDP growth rates, and charted them as a map. This caught my interest initially because of some work I have been doing that required me to read a report on African economic development in coming years. So…

  • Immigrating to Canada

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    Brendan Barry
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    The Globe and Mail has been working on a story about immigration to Canada because apparently not all immigrants come to America. The story has its section headers running down the side column of the page, like many other segmented stories you’ll see posted online these days, but also uses graphics to make and supplement…

  • Examining Growth in the G-20

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    Brendan Barry
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    On Sunday the New York Times featured a small graphic highlighting the disparity in growth rates across the G-20 if broken into the ‘core’ G-8 and then what one might call the emerging markets of the G-11. The charts are small yet compelling in telling the story of how the two different groups are performing.…

  • School Segregation in New York

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    Brendan Barry
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    This weekend the New York Times looked at segregation in New York City schools by mapping the least (and most) diverse and offering quick comparisons to other large cities. (Is it really a surprise that the country’s largest cities also would need the largest demographic shifts to create diverse education environments?) Probably the best thing,…