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The federal government recentlyreleased some detailed data on the variability of health care costs across the hospitals in the Untied States. Much was made of just how much variability there was even for hospitals in the same geographic area. Kitware, Inc. posted an interactive graphic visualization of the data for the treatment of pneumonia and […]
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 […]
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides a web site where it is possible to view a map and download the data for recent earthquakes worldwide. The map at the right is a copy of the map as it appeared on Sunday March 31, 2013. While this is good and useful data it aptly illustrated the […]