A topic that’s been in the news a lot lately is the presidential power to grant pardons, commutations, and such. But all the articles I’ve seen just quoted numeric totals – I haven’t seen a graph of the data anywhere! So I set out to find the data and graph […]
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How is it that 91% of the US didn’t vote for either Hillary or Trump in the primary, but yet they’re still the final two candidates in the presidential election? Let’s break it down with a simple graph! I recently saw a really cool slideshow on the nytimes website, that answered […]
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I usually try to avoid political or religious debates … but as an impartial data analyst, it is possible to analyze data about something, without entering into the debate. In this blog post, I try to walk that fine line, and analyze data about the political leanings of religious groups in the US. […]
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With the upcoming appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice, I wondered just how liberal and conservative previous justices have been. I found some data, and tried my hand at creating a graph to help visualize it… In my quest for data, I came upon an article on the NYTimes […]
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With a major election coming next year, I was wondering if there have been any shifts & changes in the voters in my state. This seems like an interesting opportunity for some data analysis, eh!?! To get you into the spirit of elections, here’s an “I Voted” sticker from my friend […]
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