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    A show of force

    North Korea’s military parades are an impressive sight. They can also give away important information about the regime’s capabilities and ambitions. Here we deconstruct all of Kim Jong Un’s major...
    fingfx.thomsonreuters.com
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    UK Government Incomes

    Where does the UK government get its money? How much does it then spend? And on what? Here you can review spending in your abstract metric of choice: billions, percentage of budget, or amount...
    www.informationisbeautiful.net
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  • Medium

    China's Global Energy Finance

    Since 2000, China has provided upwards of $160 billion in development finance to the energy sector for foreign governments across the globe. To understand the scope and breadth of these...
    www.bu.edu
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  • Medium

    Manufacturing jobs are returning to some places. But these jobs are different.

    The United States has lost millions of factory jobs, but in the last few years, some have come back. Can more return?
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    NewsMood

    The news is a major part of how many people obtain information every day. While it provides a vital function to keep people informed about the important issues, we don't often consciously consider...
    newsmood.studiometric.co
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  • Medium

    40 years of banking regulation: The words written to prevent the next financial crisis

    After the world-wide financial crisis 2008, banking regulation almost doubled: This collection of texts now contains over two million words on thousands of pages. Its purpose is to prevent states –...
    www.nzz.ch
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  • Medium

    2016 Election Forecast

    Our election forecast used interactive charts and maps to show the constantly changing state of the 2016 presidential race. We used multiple forms -- including several types of charts and maps --...
    projects.fivethirtyeight.com
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  • Medium

    In the federal government, how likely is it that a woman will make more than a man?

    If men and women were evenly distributed among federal jobs and pay ranges, you’d expect women to make more than men about half the time.
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    50/30/20 - Income & Financial Stability in America

    The goal of this project is to use data to allow people to explore an average financial situation under a variety of constraints. We often hear comments by politicians or opinion writers that if...
    fiftythirtytwenty.com
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  • Medium

    Bloomberg Brexit Barometer

    Can a metaphor with animated weather icons track the economic well-being of the United Kingdom and show the impact of Brexit over time? Here is our attempt at adding a little levity to an important...
    www.bloomberg.com
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  • Medium

    All the government barbecues

    In the last seven years, Brazilian public funds were used to pay for, on average, two steakhouse dinners every day. Since December of 2009, when all the expenses paid with government-sponsored...
    vsueiro.github.io
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    UK General Election 2017: Interactive Full Constituency Results

    Charting the difference between the 2015 and 2017 general elections, seat by seat, covering the main parties.
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    Our Future, Together

    Just as explorers use a compass and architects a blueprint, demographers use pyramid charts to read the tea leaves: What groups are aging  or booming with youth  , and what do these shapes tell us...
    images2.americanprogress.org
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  • Medium

    Urban and rural America are becoming increasingly polarized

    Since Obama’s election in 2008, the trend of urban counties voting for Democrats and rural counties voting for Republicans has grown stronger.
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    A Matter of Time

    “A Matter of Time” takes a comprehensive look at the nature of long prison terms in the U.S. – how time served in state prisons has grown in recent years, who is serving the longest prison terms,...
    urbn.is
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    The Rise and Fall of Greater China's Economy

    China's economy has grown rapidly since its economic reforms and increasing openness to trade, however, Hong Kong and Taiwan's economic performance in recent years has gradually slowed. The Fortune...
    4trees.github.io
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  • Medium

    Map: Donald Trump’s “mean, mean, mean” health care bill is meanest to his most crucial voters

    An $834 billion cut to Medicaid, the government’s health insurance for the poor, is the biggest single change in the health-care bill that the US House of Representatives passed in May and the US...
    qz.com
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  • Medium

    Instead of Brexit

    The Brexit divorce bill is estimated to be £66 billion. Instead, let’s buy every working person in the UK a burrito for lunch every day for a year.
    insteadofbrexit.co.uk
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  • Medium

    Parallel Narratives

    When Donald Trump swept to victory in the Electoral College on Nov. 8, perhaps no group was more surprised than journalists, who had largely bought into the polls showing Hillary Clinton was...
    news.vice.com
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  • Medium

    Those places High-speed rail (HSR) could take you to

    High-speed rail has developed rapidly in China in recent years. Its maximum speed has recently increased, to 350 kilometers per hour, and it has shortened the trip from Beijing to Nanjing to 3.5...
    datanews.caixin.com
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  • Medium

    How difficult, and how costly, is a hard Brexit?

    The bubbles on this page show each of 4,935 trade lines, and the extent of tariffs affecting them; bigger bubbles for a higher value of trade, darker colours for heavier...
    www.theguardian.com
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  • Medium

    The Electoral College misrepresents every state, but not as much as you may think

    Hillary Clinton surpassed Donald Trump by more than 2 million votes, but lost the electoral college 306 to 232. In raw votes, it was the largest popular-vote lead in history for a candidate who...
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    Pollution: Have a Gold Star

    The second largest polluing country in the world blatantly denies the existence of global warming, while we are witnessing some of the harshest environmental disasters directly related to the issue...
    www.scherabon.com
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  • Medium

    NZ Government ICT Spend: Agency on a Page

    The New Zealand Government runs an annual benchmarking survey across 25 Government agencies in order to gather information on the cost, efficiency, and effectiveness of ICT delivered by those...
    zyanbass.appspot.com
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  • Medium

    Great Britain and the European Union of 27

    This latest visualization has its genesis in this reddit thread. I wanted to represent the data therein in a way that would be easier to compare than a print-screen of an Excel table. As time went...
    arnoldplaton.wordpress.com
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  • Medium

    What President Obama’s executive actions mean for President Trump

    Executive orders are just one of nearly 30 types of presidential  actions that the president can use to do his job. All presidents have used them — they range from Lincoln’s Emancipation...
    www.washingtonpost.com
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  • Medium

    Comparing Women's Working Hours Across the Globe

    Based on data from The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, this visualization examines the number of hours worked by women on average per week. The story originally appeared in...
    public.tableau.com
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  • Medium

    How Would the U.S. Defend Against a North Korean Nuclear Attack?

    When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to allay American’s fears of North Korea’s nuclear threat by saying, “Americans should sleep well at night,” we asked, should we? What would happen if...
    www.bloomberg.com
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  • Medium

    VICE Voices

    An engagement piece done for members of the Vice voices panel showing them the results of a study on key issues impacting them in the US.
    www.lightspeedresearch.com
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  • Medium

    The US Foreign-aid Budget, Visualized

    Last month, the Obama administration announced an eye-popping $38 billion security assistance deal with the Israelis, to be disbursed over ten years starting in 2019. That caught us off-guard. It...
    www.washingtonpost.com
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