Posts tagged "tile grid maps"

Charting the Korean War's Missing Troops
I wrote recently about the effort to get North Korea to return some of the remains of United States troops who are still unaccounted for since the Korean War. More...
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Happy Valentine's Day, America: Charting Our Declining Marriage Rate
It's Valentine's Day, a perfect time to note that the marriage rate in the United States has been on a steady decline for decades, save for a brief spike in...
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New Poverty Data Show Improving Economic Conditions in States
Economic conditions continue to improve in America's states, with many showing significant declines in their poverty rates, according to new survey data released recently by the U.S. Census Bureau. About...
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NFL Geography: Where Were Professional Football Players Born?
Are states proportionally represented on the historical list of National Football League players? That's the question I had four years ago when I posted two simple state-by-state maps summarizing players'...
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Let's Tess(t)ellate: The Electoral College in Tile Grid Maps, 1980-2012
I recently added some new charting tools here thanks to NPR's excellent daily graphics rig, which we used recently to compare air quality in Seoul with other large cities. There's...
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