Data visualizations

Create over 250 demographic composites, combining race and ethnicity, gender, age, and education.

New data viz allows you to create demographic composites — using race and ethnicity, sex, age, and educational attainment — to get detailed portraits of national voter turnout and registration since 2006.

Data viz shows results from 1968 to 2008, and reminds us of frequency of disparate outcomes.

Working at minimum wage earns you less in real terms than in 1968; you're further from supporting your family, too.

At many public pension funds, the fees paid to outside investment consultants are equal to a sizable part of the money spent on employees' salaries. (The thumbnail, for example, represents CALPERS for 2011.)

There has been a lot of reporting in recent weeks about how big banks have fallen on hard times. One would be forgiven for getting the impression that these banks are not doing much better than barely scraping by. But the data tell another story. In 2011, for example, the profits of Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo each exceeded the profits of Google. The average profit from 2005 to 2011 for Apple was less than that for Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo.

The top 1 percent of families captured 93 percent of total income growth from 2009 to 2010.

Three new visualizations situate 2011 corporate taxes in context of entire post-1945 period.

Three new visualizations situate 2011 corporate taxes in context of entire post-1945 period.

American manufacturing workers are more productive than ever, but earn less than they did in 1970. Remapping Debate’s attempt to visualize the growing gap more clearly than did a recent Wall Street Journal article.

Viz shows scope, type of projects built in New York under New Deal's Public Works Administration. Inflation-adjusted cost exceeded $6 billion.