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Another way in which real data can mislead. The attached chart seems to indicate that Boomers are much richer than Gen X and they are richer than millennials. However, converting this to per-person makes the difference go away entirely!
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Are Millennials much poorer than prior generations were at the same age? A viral chart appears to show this, but it looks at the share of national wealth going to each generation What if we put it in per capita terms? A very different picture! economistwritingeveryday.com/2021/09/01/who
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Thread of how the choice of colors in the maps accompanying the articles has its own narrative that changed over time
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Interesting to see how the @nytgraphics has changed their map symbology as the Russian war in #Ukraine️ unfolds. On Feb 26, large red arrows and an almost opaque red color shows Russian advances in Ukraine. Suggesting fast, large and controlled overtaking. 1/5
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Misuse of year-over-year growth chart
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Loved the deceptive plot of decline in growth of restaurant spending that didn't account for the change in the denominator. Just the kind of top notch Post economic analysis I'd expect.
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Rhythms of different processes in plants, from minutes to years, visualized
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Plant cells generate rhythms/oscillations in virtually all scales of spatiotemporal organization. A whopping 24 orders of magnitude in time 15 in space! Out in our recent review "Electrifying rhythms in plant cells" with @mtportes_ & Feijó fig:@joana_gcc sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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This visualization has a much bigger impact than if the same thing was said in words
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A great example of translating the stat to create its effect, don't you think @karlastarr? Podiums by countries in 3000m steeplechase since the 1998 CWG 1998: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 2002: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 2006: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 2010: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 2014: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 2018: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 2022: 🇰🇪 🇮🇳🇰🇪
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