Posts Tagged ‘ Washington Post ’

Visualizing electoral college politics: exercise in displaying relationships between variables

August 3, 2017
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Visualizing electoral college politics: exercise in displaying relationships between variables

Kaiser Fung, founder of Junk Charts and Principal Analytics Prep, a next-gen data analytics bootcamp, shows how to portray complex multivariate relationships using electoral college politics as an example.

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Unintentional deception of area expansion #bigdata #piechart

June 14, 2017
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Unintentional deception of area expansion #bigdata #piechart

Kaiser Fung, founder of Principal Analytics Prep, deconstructs a visualization of Big Data adoption in industry

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Your charts need the gift of purpose

March 21, 2017
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Your charts need the gift of purpose

Via Twitter, I received this chart: My readers are nailing it when it comes to finding charts that deserve close study. On Twitter, the conversation revolved around the inversion of the horizontal axis. Favorability is associated with positive numbers, and...

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Chopped legs, and abridged analyses

December 27, 2016
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Chopped legs, and abridged analyses

Reader Glenn T. was not impressed by the graphical talent on display in the following column chart (and others) in a Monkey Cage post in the Washington Post: Not starting column charts at zero is like having one's legs chopped...

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Political winds and hair styling

November 23, 2016
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Political winds and hair styling

Washington Post (link) and New York Times (link) published dueling charts last week, showing the swing-swang of the political winds in the U.S. Of course, you know that the pendulum has shifted riotously rightward towards Republican red in this election....

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Here are the cool graphics from the election

November 10, 2016
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Here are the cool graphics from the election

There were some very nice graphics work published during the last few days of the U.S. presidential election. Let me tell you why I like the following four charts. FiveThirtyEight's snake chart This chart definitely hits the Trifecta. It is...

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What if the Washington Post did not display all the data

April 23, 2015
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What if the Washington Post did not display all the data

Thanks to reader Charles Chris P., I was able to get the police staffing data to play around with. Recall from the previous post that the Washington Post made the following scatter plot, comparing the proportion of whites among police...

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