Tag: New York Times

  • Obama Campaign Spending Breakdown

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    Over the weekend, the New York Times looked at how the Obama campaign has been spending its cash. I appreciate the value in these sort of block charts, but, I wonder if a bar chart would not have been more clear for the comparison. I like the block charts when the designer is rearranging the…

  • Comparing Ad Spending in Three Key Election States

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    In this infographic about campaign ad spending in three battleground states, the New York Times shows that small multiples can work to create effective comparisons through an efficient use of space.

  • Drought Footprint

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    A lot of people’s minds may be on the Olympics that open up today in London. However, a very important story that was covered a little while ago deserves a post. The United States has been suffering from a severe drought across much of the country. Droughts are nothing new, though climate change is likely…

  • 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.

  • Blowing Things Up (Or Shooting Them Down)

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    Brendan Barry
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    After an odd two short weeks—imagine two weeks with each only having a Monday and a Friday—we (in the royal sense of I) are back to the routine. So what better way than to look at American awesomeness in blowing things up. Through air strikes launched from US aircraft carriers. This graphic comes from the…

  • The Conservative Supreme Court

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    From last week’s New York Times, a look at the Supreme Court by age and political leanings. They’ve gotten a lot more conservative.

  • 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.…

  • Brotherly Love

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    From the New York Times we have a graphic that looks at homicides across several different US cities. And in Chicago, they are up significantly from this point last year. So too is Philly, but I like to think of that as an outpouring of brotherly love.

  • Where Your Bacteria Live

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    Brendan Barry
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    People are nothing more than dirty stinking apes. Especially when it comes to microbes. On Monday the New York Times published an infographic that visualised the data on the prevalence and abundance of different microbes across a sample of over 200 individuals. That is to say the visualisation looks at where microbes are most common…

  • Frack You, Gas Hole.

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    And not in the polite Galactica way, but more in the let’s drill you, rocks, and split you open. I could go in further detail about the injection of fracking fluids, but let’s leave the double entendre alone and talk about Marcellus Shale. It’s a layer of rocks in the dirt that contain natural gas.…