Category: Political DataViz
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Political Dataviz: Executive Orders Issued by the President in their first 100 Days in Office (The Economist)
Source: The Economist, Joe Biden is taking executive action at a record pace, Daily Chart, January 22, 2021, https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/22/joe-biden-is-taking-executive-action-at-a-record-pace. Joe Biden is signing executive orders at a record pace. In his first two days in office, he has signed 17 executive orders; more executive orders than Donald Trump did in nearly two months in office. […]
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FiveThirtyEight: Four Interesting 2018 Midterm Elections Charts
Source: Rachael Dottle, Ella Koeze, and Julia Wolfe, The 2018 Midterms, In 4 Charts, November 13, 2018, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-2018-midterms-in-4-charts/. Readers: Some interested 2018 Midterm Elections charts from FiveThirtyEight. Enjoy! Michael
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Political DataViz: How Voting Blocs Have Shifted From the ’80s to Now
Readers: Some of you may be wondering why I am devoting my blog posts lately to the midterm election that just occurred. My reasoning for this is that I think some of the most creative data visualizations are created right before and after a major election cycle. Today, I am showcasing some charts that were […]
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Political DataViz: How to Forecast an American’s Vote (The Economist)
Religion, not race, is the best single predictor of voting preferences America’s founding fathers envisioned a republic in which free-thinking voters would carefully consider the proposals of office-seekers. Today, however, demography seems to govern voters’ choices. Since April 2017 The Economist and YouGov, a pollster, have surveyed 1,500 Americans each week. They have built a statistical model […]
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Chart: Every time Ford and Kavanaugh dodged a question
Readers: The chart below was created by Alvin Chang from Vox. Here is a link to an interactive version of is chart on the Vox website. Mr. Chang points out the following. There were several noticeable differences between the Senate testimony of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford. […]
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Political Infographic: Trump-Kim to Meet at Sentosa Island
This week, U.S. President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will meet in a historic summit at the five-star Capella Hotel on the Singaporean island of Sentosa. Once known as the “island behind death” due to its violent piracy past, and the site of a World War II massacre, the now tranquil […]