Unemployment Changes Across The Country

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:20:39 -0500

Core lesson: think about what a visualization makes easy to see. Different representations make some things easier, and harder. And some issues with dealing with geographic data in the US.

This comes from a New York Times story from August, 2024 The Geography of Unequal Recovery. Curiously, this page doesn’t show up well in my web browser, the images are from the mobile app (on an iPad).

Here is the “headline” (what appeared in the app “front page” that intrigued me):

College Attendance Line Chart

Sat, 17 May 2025 08:52:47 -0500

This is a lesson on Axis Truncation for Line Graphs. It was inspired by a graph in the New York Times.

With Data on Visualization Snacks

Unemployment Changes Across The Country

College Attendance Line Chart