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American Middle Class

2 May 2014

So, how does America’s middle class compare to those around the world? Not as good as it used to.

It takes a second to absorb these charts, but they show how other countries’ middle class incomes have closed the gap on the USA from 1980 to 2010. Except for our top income brackets – they are still the richest of all.

The original article tries to explain parts of this trend.

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Bootstrap America

In: Culture Interactive Source: NYT US Economy

22 Jul 2013

Is the American dream still alive? Can you work hard and raise your income level? Well, it kinda depends on where you live. The NYT has a couple of nice interactive tools who exploring the results of a study of the issue. (via FlowingData)

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US Corporations: Effective Tax Rates

In: Finance Global Economy Politics Source: NYT

31 May 2013

A spiffy annotated interactive visualization by the NYT on what different industries actually pay in taxes. The differences in rates between industries illustrate who is getting tax breaks. The related article is worth a read.

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2000 years of Global Temperatures

In: Environment/weather History Source: NYT

15 May 2013

Interesting scientific work, building on prior studies from across the world. Rather than get into the findings in detail I refer you to the NYT article and a very detail FAQ at the authors’ website)

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More Hotness

In: Environment/weather Maps Source: NYT

10 Jan 2013

Apparently the forecasts for the current heat-wave in Australia are so hot that the Bureau of Meteorology had to add two new colors to it’s forecasting map:

And here is the NYT version of of the 2012 temperature map. I like the city histograms at the bottom.

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Have Your Taxes Gone Up? (1980-2010)

In: Employment Politics Source: NYT US Economy

3 Dec 2012

An excellent annotated analysis by the NYT looking at federal, state, and corporate tax brackets.

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Election Permutations

In: Innovative Interactive Politics Source: NYT

5 Nov 2012

Fantastic flow chart from the NYT showing what happens depending on which way swing states go.

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How Much Have Olympians Improved?

In: Source: NYT Sports Video

6 Aug 2012

Very cool videographics analyzing the history of the 100m race, long jump, and 100m freestyle swim:

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Understanding the European Crisis

In: Global Economy Maps Source: NYT

18 Jun 2012

The New York Times uses resized maps to illustrate some relative economic indicators. Resized non-contiguous cartograms are always interesting (mappingworlds for example), but I’m not sure they shed much light here as the country proportions are very similar across indicators. As usual, however, the NYT includes some very clear narrative notes to help you along.

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Heat vs Thunder

In: Interactive Source: NYT Sports

13 Jun 2012

An excellent analysis of the players from both teams. The colors map out where shots were taken from, and how accurate they were.

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How Would You Cut Defense?

In: Interactive Politics Source: NYT

18 May 2012

The NYT presents a list of options for you to decide how to trim defense spending. As usual, it’s not quite as easy as you might think – but I still got it up over $800 billion. I like this interactive way of educating people about budget issues.