Income Mobility

This past week there were a number of stories on income mobility in the United States. The work these reports were based on was a paper titled: “The Economic Impacts of Tax Expenditures: Evidence from Spatial Variation Across the U.S.” out of Harvard and the University of California. Interestingly, based on the title, the main […]

Visual clutter – affirmative action poll results

This has to be one of the more cluttered graphic that I have seen in some time. It was published in the Washington Post on June 12 in a piece titled: “Wide majority opposes race-based college admissions programs, Post-ABC poll finds.” The full accompanying graphic can be seen here. One of the core principle of […]

When a forcast is not a forcast

The National Weather Service, using data provided by the US Geological Survey, posts on the web data and forecasts for many rivers in the United State. Earlier this year I was looking at the forecasts for the river levels at St. Louis on the Mississippi River. The current forecast can be found here. The problem […]

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