The New York Times has an eye-catching graphic illustrating the Amtrak crash last year near Philadelphia. The article is here. The various images associated with this article vary in the amount of contextual details offered to readers. This graphic provides...
This year's U.S. primary elections have been very entertaining. Delegate maps are a handy way to keep track of the horse race. They provide data to support (or refute) the narratives created by reporters who use words like "landslide", "commanding",...
Here is a map that attracted my attention on the NY Times (link): The counties are given shades of blue with darker shades meaning more economic distress. According to the label (Newark), the 10 red dots are the top 10...
The credit for today's headline goes to Andrew Gelman, who said something like that when I presented the following chart at his Statistical Graphics class yesterday: With this chart (which appeared in a large ad in the NY Times), Fidelity...
Some time ago, this chart showed up in a NYT Magazine (it's about sex): In this composition, the visual element (the circles) has no utility. A self-sufficiency test makes this point clear. All the data (four numbers) are printed on...
My friend Rhonda D. wins a prize for submitting a good chart. This is Bloomberg's take on the current Supreme Court case on gay marriage (link). Their designer places this movement in the context of prior social movements such as...
It's very frustrating to read the mainstream articles about the recent unemployment report. For example, the New York Times said "U.S. Jobless Claims Hit 15-year Low." (link) At this point, everyone should be aware of how employment statistics, in particular,...
I'll be hosting a Data Visualization workshop at the Digital Media Marketing Conference in St. Louis, Missouri on Thursday. Here is the link to their website. The workshop is arranged from three themes: Appreciating, Conceptualizing, and Improving. There will be...
In a comment to my previous post, reader Chris P. pointed me to the following set of maps, also from the New York Times crew, on the legalization of gay marriage in the U.S. (link) (For those who did not...
The New York Times shows the following set of maps to illustrate State policies relating to illegal immigrants. (link to article) This is a great classroom exercise. The question is: to map or not to map. What are other possible...
