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…
From Oregon to Maine, Statehouses Are Having Their Own #MeToo Reckonings
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the #MeToo movement has gained steam following the damning sexual misconduct revelations against producer Harvey Weinstein in October, more and more women around the country have spoken out about a pervasive and unchecked culture of sexual harassment in American politics. So…
Can American Society Overcome the Fake News Phenomenon?
RichVintage/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s not as if fake news in America came into existence alongside the tide known as the Trump presidency—the hucksters, foreign propagandists, conspiracy theorists, and fabricators have always been here—but if ever there was a year when purposefully misleading or false stories hit…
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…