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US Medical Debt Rates by Income, Race, and Ethnicity (2020)

Medical Debt Rates by Income, Race, and Ethnicitygraph by Kylie Murdock, Joshua Kendall, and David Kendall; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Murdock, K., Kendall, J., & Kendall, D (2023). Medical Debt Hits the Heart of the Middle Class. Thirdway:… Continue reading US Medical Debt Rates by Income, Race, and Ethnicity (2020)

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Unlike Medical Spending, Medical Bills In Collections Decrease With Patients’ Age

Unlike Medical Spending, Medical Bills In Collections Decrease With Patients’ Agegraph by Michael Batty, Christa Gibbs, and Benedic Ippolito; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: line graph (double y-axis) Visualization Source: Batty, M., Gibbs, C., & Ippolito, B. (2018). Unlike medical spending, medical bills… Continue reading Unlike Medical Spending, Medical Bills In Collections Decrease With Patients’ Age

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Comparing the Number of Fires with the Amount of Emissions in Canadian Fires (2002-2019)

The number of yearly wildfires in Canada has stayed about the same or decreased. So why is the total yearly emissions from wildfires increasing dramatically?

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Vaping Up a Storm 3: E-cigarette ads and teen e-cigarette use

As more dollars were spent on e-cigarette advertising, e-cigarette use amongst teens rose dramatically. This double y-axis graph, that is both a bar and a line graph, reveals a disturbing trend.

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Comparing the number of mass shootings in the US (by race) with the number of words used in coverage by the NYTimes

How does the number of mass shootings, broken down by race, compare with the average number of words the NYTimes used to cover the story?

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