government

Government shutdown, other industries provided for scale

Infographics / government, New York Times, scale, shutdown

As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…
High school statistics class builds election prediction model

Statistics / election, government, students

High school seniors, in the Political Statistics class at Montgomery Blair High School…
$16.1m in political and taxpayer spending at Trump properties

Infographics / Fathom, government, m, ProPublica, spending

ProPublica compiled spending data from a wide range of sources to calculate the…
Amazon Rekognition for government surveillance

Statistics / Amazon, government, surveillance

Amazon’s Rekognition is a video analysis system that promises to identify individuals in…
Where constituent input ends up

Infographics / feedback, flowchart, government

When you have input to send Congress, you have a number of communication…
Redistricting the congressional map with different goals

Maps / FiveThirtyEight, gerrymandering, government

FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…
Troubling pick for Census Bureau deputy director

Statistics / census, government

The administration’s current pick for deputy director of the United States Census Bureau…
How many people might lose health insurance

Maps / government, health care, New York Times

The Urban Institute estimated how many people in each state gained health insurance…
Searchable budget proposal and the 10-year change

Data Sources / budget, government, New York Times

The administration released a budget proposal yesterday, which as you’d expect contains some…
Gerrymandering game shows you how it works

Infographics / game, gerrymandering, government

Gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating boundaries in such a way that favors…
Data distributed as clipart

Mistaken Data / clipart, Excel, government

Government data isn’t always the easiest to use with computers. Maybe it’s in…
Trump approval ratings compared to past presidents

Statistical Visualization / FiveThirtyEight, government

Using multiple polls as their source data, FiveThirtyEight is tracking approval and disapproval…
Shifting national budget

Infographics / budget, government, Washington Post

The Washington Post looks at the shifting national budget over the past 40…
Easily download large-ish survey datasets

Data Sources / government, R, surveys

Many government organizations release microdata for surveys every year. It comes as anonymized…
Open data from The White House returns no results

Data Sharing / closed data, government

When you search for datasets on The White House site, you get nothing.…
Track what your government representatives are doing for you

Data Sources / API, elections, government, ProPublica

Taking over an old New York Times project, ProPublica re-launches Represent, which offers…
US surveillance flight paths for the FBI and Homeland Security

Maps / BuzzFeed, government, privacy, surveillance

Peter Aldhous and Charles Seife dug into flight path data, specifically looking for…
Data USA makes government data easier to explore

Apps / government, open data

Government data is, shall we say, not the easiest to use and look…
Possible paths for a Trump nomination loss or win

Infographics / elections, government, simulation, Upshot

It pains me to imagine a time when Donald Drumpf earns a Republican…
Supreme Court shifts in power

Infographics / government, Supreme Court, Upshot

The Upshot has been doing a good bit on the Supreme Court dynamics…

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