Balancing a state budget is an exercise in tradeoffs. Every dollar allocated to one priority is a dollar unavailable for another. Yet those tradeoffs are often difficult to see, buried…
For weeks now, the John Locke Foundation’s Jon Sanders has been publishing what he calls the “NC Threat-Free Index.” It is a collection of COVID-19 data that puts the numbers…
The Henderson County website is currently displaying this lovely graphic on its homepage. Let’s start with things I like. First, I’m a fan of charts and graphs. I think they…
There’s been a lot of election coverage this week, most of it focused on the big national races – Trump and Clinton winning their respective primaries. But WRAL here in…
Chris Edwards passes along some interesting information about his project to keep tabs on federal government spending. The Downsizing Government charting program now contains the latest federal budget data. …
In releasing details of its new Obamacare-related health insurance premiums Thursday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina posted on its website the following chart. The chart documents a wide…
Those of you who enjoy all the charts and graphs associated with public policy debates will appreciate the latest addition to the Cato Institute’s DownsizingGovernment.org site. It allows you to…
My gripe for today is charts where names occur in colored circles and arrows are drawn. I’m not talking about traditional flow charts that actually conveyed information about chains of…
Still, this is fascinating. It’s an aural depiction of the fractions of seconds between gold, silver or bronze in the speed events at the Winter Olympics. Click “play” and imagine…
Here are some handy figures – at least they’re trying to be. Maybe my browser isn’t displaying properly, but is it safe to assume they pertain to the federal government…
Fun from GraphJam:
From WRAL (bet ya’ didn’t know this one): Rainfall since 1/1/2007 at RDU Normal: 58.77 inches Actual: 51.12 inches Deficit: 7.65 inches Updated May 12 at 5:10a.m. Complete Drought…