The New York Times brought attention to the Bronx courtrooms this weekend. (link) The following small-multiples chart effectively illustrates how the Bronx system is uniquely unproductive, compared to the other boroughs: The above chart shows the outcomes. The next chart...
Some interviews with me or snippets of such have surfaced recently. Here is a list: Kate Meersschaert interviewed me for New Learning Times (link; registration required). I talked about my teaching philosophy, and why I write books. Jay Ulfelder, a political scientist who keeps an interesting blog, recommends Numbers Rule Your World, and a few other books for political scientists (link). If you haven't heard already, 2013 is the International…
The Guardian recently discussed the "declining linguistic standards" in State of the Union addresses. I thought this was an interesting exercise, but something seemed wrong about the article, and it turns out this is one case where the data do no...
Felix linked to a set of charts about guns in the U.S. (and elsewhere). The original charts, by Liz Fosslien, are found here. I like the clean style used by Fosslien. Some of the charts are thought-provoking. Many of them...
Nate Silver first attracted attention two election cycles ago with the launch of his fivethirtyeight.com website (538 is the number of electoral votes in the United States.) He makes clean charts, which I like a lot. Since that time, he has earned a platform on the New York Times website, which goes some way to explaining the vitriol hurled at him during the just-concluded election season by the right wing.…
Xan G. has a must-read post comparing different ways of showing the electoral map. See here. The key learning is something I often point out on this blog: geographical data can have a greater impact when it is unshackled from...
The November issue of Bloomberg Markets published the following pair of pyramid charts: This chart fails a number of tests: Tufte's data-ink ratio test There are a total of six data points in the entire graphic. A mathematician would say...
Statisticians have been deconstructed! I feel vaguely insulted, although I have to admit I’m not even sure I know what the article says. This line is a doozy though: “Statistics always pulls back from the claims it makes…” As a...
Statisticians have been deconstructed! I feel vaguely insulted, although I have to admit I’m not even sure I know what the article says. This line is a doozy though: “Statistics always pulls back from the claims it makes…” As a...
Statisticians have been deconstructed! I feel vaguely insulted, although I have to admit I’m not even sure I know what the article says. This line is a doozy though: “Statistics always pulls back from the claims it makes…” As a...
