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Visualizing Four Numbers

July 23, 2014
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This request is from Billy. I saw this chart a few weeks ago and immediately felt that it was a terrible way to show the data. (Let’s ignore for the moment that with only four numbers, a graphic may not actually be necessary…

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Cross-Country Inequality

June 2, 2014
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For this visualization I decided to focus on the economic inequality within regions represented by the data. Highlighting each region with its own chart, one can see the dispersion of social equality or inequality within each region. I also chose…

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The Cost of War

April 7, 2014
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This request for help with an interactive visualization built in d3 comes from Tim Hayes. This interactive visualization presents the thousands of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014. The data came from the Washington Post’s…

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