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Plotting Internet Use

I want to use Census data to examine the relationship between Internet use and the age of people in the household. Because all the values are so high (towards 100%), it might appear strange to have so much white space if…

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Cross-Country Inequality

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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Income Volatility Line Graphs

Bradley Hardy from American University sends in the following request: I’m trying to figure out how to create “nice” panel charts in excel, where I’m currently attempting to do so in Stata. (See for example Figure 2.) I can easily…

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Visualizing Banker Honesty

This request comes from Patrick Asea, Associate Professor of Economics at the American University of Afghanistan. How would you best visualize the data presented in Table 11 of this paper (data here)? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. If possible I…

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Trying to Fix “The Fix”

Over on PolicyViz, I wrote a post about this graph from The Fix at the Washington Post. I’m not a fan of the graph namely because the focus of the article was about the change in approval ratings between 2012…

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Part-to-Whole Help

Reader and contributor Ulrik Willemoes writes in the following request for Excel help. I am looking for some feedback on a rather basic visualization. I wish to display a parts-to-whole relationship over time. I know stacked bars or areas do not…

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The Cost of War

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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Trajectories of Obesity

This request comes from Joyce Lee at the University of Michigan. I published this paper long ago on trends in obesity over people’s lives. The images from that paper can be found in this PPT file (the data is embedded in…

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Charting Player Impact vs Time on Court

Over on PolicyViz.com, Mynda Treacy from MyOnlineTrainingHub wrote a guest blog post about visualizing basketball data. Mynda writes about and teaches Excel skills, ranging from number formats to chart types to VBA code. In her PolicyViz post, Mynda walks through her…

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