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Contaminated science #ecoli #mcdonalds #storytime ..read more

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Great example of layering for visual stories ..read more

Nice interactive graphics in election coverage ..read more

What does "too close to call" mean? (Reposting ..read more

Dentistry: science or hearsay ..read more

Blast from the past: my post from 2016 on "the election forecasting business ..read more

Criminal graphics, graphical crimes ..read more

A long-time reader sent me the following map via twitter: This map tells how the major political groups divide up the European Parliament. I’ll spare you the counting. There are 27 countries, and nine political groups (including the "unaffiliated"). The key chart type is a box of dots. Each country gets its own box. Each box has its own width. What determines the width? If you ask me, it’s the relative span of the countries on the map. For example, the narrow countries like Ireland and Portugal have three dots across while the wider countries like Spain, Germany and Italy have 7, 10 and 8 do ..read more