In: Interactive Politics Source: NYT Source: Washington Post Source: WSJ
14 Feb 2012A number of news agencies took a crack at visualizing Obama’s 2013 budget proposal. (If you want to try it yourself, a shocking amount of detailed data is available in spreadsheet form at the OMB website).
Below is the Washington Post’s version. You can click on any box to see a column chart of historical values. It would have been nice to be able to drill down further, but this is a good start:
The NYT created a beautiful animated – ummm – I’m not sure what this is. A dorling diagram? Well, it looks pretty, and it’s slightly more detailed than the WashPost version, but I think the brain processes square area better than circles.
The WSJ posted five charts, but they’re nothing special:
In: Food Politics Source: NYT
11 Feb 2012Originally from PCRM, but I link to the NYT commentary below. Farm subsidies are a joke. Actually, almost all subsidies are a joke, now that I think about it.
A treemap of the jobs that the 1% are doing – showing a lot of variety. I wish there was more detail about the dataset source. The related article provides some anecdotal examples.
In: Culture Employment Interactive Maps Source: NYT US Economy
17 Jan 2012Enter your household income and see where you rank in 344 areas around the country:
There’s some interesting behind the scenes information on the news paper version here:
A well annotated graphic from the NYT. Over at Visual Journalism, they point out the design differences between the print and online versions of this graphic.
An elegant multi-indicator graphic from the NYT on income inequality and jobs. It’s disappointing that it took so long for the story of these trends to get traction in the media. (related article)
In: Politics Source: NYT
23 Aug 2011Four perfect graphs from the NYT (as usual) putting the debt crisis into perspective.
Thanks to Kanal Eliezer for sending in the link!
There’s a new study on the history of collegiate grade inflation. Fascinating stuff – particularly the difference in giving As in private vs public schools. Thanks to David Cramer for passing on the link!
The NYT analyzed word usage in 40 2011 commencement speeches. The results are largely what you would expect. However, the differences between private, public, and religious schools are kinda interesting. (related speeches)
In: Housing Maps Source: NYT
20 Jun 2011The backlog of mortgage delinquencies continues to stagnate after court rulings slowed the process in most states. The housing market won’t really be operating as a “market” for quite some time.
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Households Like You
In: Commentary Interactive Source: NYT
20 Jun 2011Select your household type (married, kids, rooomies, etc) and view some summary statistics from the American Community Survey.