Archive for ‘The Times’ Category

• Big Happy Republican Family

  As you might know (or don't know), Mitt Romney is vying for the Republican presidential nomination. His five sons have all lent a helping hand to the campaign. This …

• ArcGIS and Excel are Worthwhile

  If I've learned anything in my first month at The Times, it's that ArcGIS and Microsoft Excel are not worthless. For a while now, since I started grad school, I …

• Timelines to Show Changes Over Time

  I recently put together a timeline for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's changing views on the Iraq war. In 2002, she voted in support of the war. In 2006, her …

• Prisoners Getting Shipped to Other States

  I made this graphic early last week, or actually, maybe it was during my first week. In any case, they finally ran the story, and my graphic is on the …

• CUNY Raising SAT Math Score Cutoff

  Tired of looking at my New York Times graphics yet? Too bad. Here's another one for my your viewing pleasure. CUNY schools are planning to raise their SAT math scores …

• Evaluating New York Subway Report Card

  I had a chance to browse through some of my subscribed feeds today, and I saw a post called Noisy Subways by Kaiser over at Junk Charts blog. So I …

• Annual New York Subway Report Card

  My second graphic was in The Times Metro section today (Tuesday, July 24, pg B2). It's an annual report card compiled by the Straphangers Campaign for every New York …

• More About the Style, Less About How

  It's six days in, and I'm starting to get used to Adobe Illustrator. It's one honker of a program, so I'm picking up things as I go along, but on …

• My First Graphic in The Times

  and here it is. Floyd Norris has a weekly editorial called Off the Charts. This week's was titled A Blockbuster Seller Overseas: Stakes in Corporate America. It's about the …

• New Lessons Every Day

  Every day I learn a lot, and every day I get better. For most of the day today, I worked on a single graphic (that hopefully runs in the …