Data visualizations
Spectacular new ways to slice and dice unemployment data since 2007
Create over 250 demographic composites, combining race and ethnicity, gender, age, and education.
Digging down into voter turnout
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.
Popular vote for President: former Confederate states versus rest of U.S.
Data viz shows results from 1968 to 2008, and reminds us of frequency of disparate outcomes.
Private consultants rake in public pension fund fees
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.)
Back on top: new data show wealthy recovering more than others
The top 1 percent of families captured 93 percent of total income growth from 2009 to 2010.
Eye-opening data vizes on corporate tax revenues, effective rates, share since 1946
Three new visualizations situate 2011 corporate taxes in context of entire post-1945 period.
Obama seeks to lock in corporate taxes near historic lows
Three new visualizations situate 2011 corporate taxes in context of entire post-1945 period.
When the federal government dared to act
Viz shows scope, type of projects built in New York under New Deal's Public Works Administration. Inflation-adjusted cost exceeded $6 billion.