Posts tagged "d3"

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Visualizing a Year of @realDonaldTrump

Visualizing a Year of @realDonaldTrump

President Trump thumbed his way through another year in the White House on Twitter, compiling a good (great) collection of 2,930 touts, complaints, defenses and rants. He left 2018 with... Read more →
Charting the GOP's Congressional Exodus

Charting the GOP's Congressional Exodus

Another Republican in the U.S. House — Speaker Paul Ryan, no less — announced his intention not to seek re-election in 2018, adding to the number of members leaving ahead of what's... Read more →
Visualizing #NICAR18, Part II

Visualizing #NICAR18, Part II

I posted recently about the NICAR journalism conference, held this year in Chicago — and it turns out news nerds like to tweet. To keep track of all the conference chatter,... Read more →

Jobless Claims at Five-Decade Low

The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits hasn't been this low since Richard Nixon was president, according to new data from the U.S. Labor Department. The figures suggest... Read more →

It's Been a Hot Summer, Down Under

My family is vacationing this week in Mosman, Australia, a harbourside Sydney suburb near Balmoral Beach known for its family friendly attractions and boutique shops. This place is a great... Read more →
Visualizing North Korea's Missile Launches

Visualizing North Korea's Missile Launches

Despite international objections, North Korea has launched four ballistic missiles in the last week, including one that flew over Japan, raising regional tensions about the rogue state's weapons development even... Read more →

Charting Historical Voter Turnout

As FiveThirtyEight notes, turnout in the 2016 presidential election isn't dramatically lower than it was four years ago, according to the latest estimates. And with many mail-in and provision ballots... Read more →
Mapping Where 'Americans' Live

Mapping Where 'Americans' Live

Back during the Republican primaries, The Upshot published an interesting short post called the Geography of Trumpism. The reporters back then analyzed hundreds of demographic variables, by county, in an... Read more →
Charting MLB Division Races

Charting MLB Division Races

Earlier I used small multiples to show how each Major League Baseball team's 2016 season progressed relative to the .500 line. Here are those same line charts, but this time... Read more →
Seoul's Steamy Summer (Updated)

Seoul's Steamy Summer (Updated)

Note: I followed my wife, a foreign correspondent for NPR News, to Seoul last year. This is one of a series of posts exploring our adopted country's demographics, politics and... Read more →
Charting Taiwan's Sea of Scooters

Charting Taiwan's Sea of Scooters

[caption id="attachment_2591" align="alignnone" width="840"] Scooters at a Taipei intersection. Credit: Quatro Valvole/Wikimieda[/caption] I'm in Taiwan this month to study Mandarin. During breaks, I'll be posting occasionally about the island nation's... Read more →

Air Quality in Seoul, China, U.S.

[caption id="attachment_2325" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] The view from our apartment in Seoul. Some days are better than others.[/caption] The air quality in Seoul — a mega city home to 70,000 taxis and... Read more →