Blog Posts in January 2010

With the current financial crises, schools have been forced to raise tuition. Enraged by the scale of the raise, students have rioted at several California schools. Given the increased debt many of these students will have, we thought a quick look into student loan default ...

It used to be common, but infant and childhood mortality in the US has dropped significantly in the past 100 years. It is still an enormous problem worldwide, with dozens of countries still losing over 10% of their children before they turn 5. Use this viz to explore and ...

50 million Americans currently live without healthcare and are therefore at the mercy of any ailment that may befall them. There are many competing views on how to improve the system, but two main bills have made their way through the legislative process. Use this viz to ...

This viz looks at the most common unemployment figure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but adds visual perspective for comparison. The line graph is useful to compare the severity of a recession (or boom). The scatterplot is useful in gauging how volatile that decade ...

This is a viz of the quarterly House of Representatives Statement of Disbursements, describing how members of the House of Representatives spend money for staff, rent, printing and other officially-incurred expenses. Explore to see how financially responsible your elected ...

Ever wonder who gets to see the inside of the Oval Office? Now you can! Thanks to a White House initiative to increase transparency, limited visitor data is now available to the general public. Naturally, we could not resist the urge to viz it. You may be surprised who ...