Home Price Confusion and a Bar Chart Inside Bar Chart

In as piece on the price of homes in the Washington DC area the Washington Post published the graph at the right. Call this a bar chart within a bar chart with a series of “half bubble charts” at the bottom. For the embedded bar charts we are to ignore the area and focus only […]

Posted by Larry on April 12th, 2013 | Comments Off on Home Price Confusion and a Bar Chart Inside Bar Chart Posted in Graphics Visualization, The Media, Where's the Data?

Do AP Exams Measure School Performance?

The Prince George’s County Maryland county executive, in his frustration over the performance of the school system has proposed to shift many of the responsibility for the school system from the elected school board to the county government. In the mist of the discussions the education reporter for the Washington post has put forth a […]

Posted by Larry on April 6th, 2013 | Comments Off on Do AP Exams Measure School Performance? Posted in Telling the Full Story, The Media, Where's the Data?

Smoking, Health, and NBC – What did you say?

NBC News on a new study on the health risks of smoking in a report titled “Lifelong smoking reduces life by a decade.” But at many points they failed miserably at providing real data. At one point they said that smoking triples the chances for a premature death. So if I smoke my risk of […]

Posted by Larry on October 27th, 2012 | Comments Off on Smoking, Health, and NBC – What did you say? Posted in Where's the Data?
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