A Drunken Trump Aide Sparked the FBI’s Trump-Russia Investigation
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is Donald Trump a few days ago: WOW, @foxandfrlends “Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED.” And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the…
Wait! I Have a Better Dual Y-Axis Chart.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I blew it! In my post earlier this morning about charts with dual y-axes I picked some miscellaneous data as an illustration. Then I saw a tweet about an article written in October that lays out the relationship between trust in government and murder rates:…
Pick Your Favorite Shutter Speed!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A couple of days ago I threatened to post a gallery of pictures of the fountain in Trafalgar Square taken at different shutter speeds. That way you can see how they differ and decide which one you like best. Doesn’t that sound like fun? Here…
Today’s Morning Waker-Upper: The Great Dual Y-Axis Dispute
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today let’s discuss one of the great blogging controversies of our time. Having dispensed earlier with the Oxford comma (yes) and how to treat the word data (it’s singular), it’s time to take on the great Dual Y-Axis Dispute. I’ll illustrate this with a chart…
Donald Trump Is the First President to Lose a Third of His Staff in Year 1
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Unless Donald Trump suddenly decides to fire the entire Oval Office—and you never know, do you?—he’ll end his first year with a turnover rate among senior staff of 34 percent. That’s really high! The red bars are from Kathryn Dunn-Tenpas, a political science professor at…
In 2018, Can We Please Dial Down the Coverage of President Trump’s Tweets?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s something I wish we’d see less of in 2018: I get that when the president says something, it’s news. But Donald Trump’s random revenge tweets really don’t rate coverage anymore, and certainly not front-page coverage. Just wait a day or two. If this turns…