Have foreign tourists really avoided America this summer? This graph from the Economist may look like a simple bar graph, but it asks the viewer to integrate ideas about both percentage change and also the actual change.
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US Shipping Exports (January – April 2025)
US Shipping Exports (Jannuary - April 2025)graph by Visual Capitalist; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Visual Capitalist, "Charted: The Slump in U.S. Shipping Exports." VoronoiApp: May 15, 2025. Data Source: LaRocco, Lori Ann. "Trump trade tariffs slump widens to… Continue reading US Shipping Exports (January – April 2025)
Extreme Poverty, by region (1990-2017)
Extreme Poverty, by region (1990 - 2017)graph from Patricia Smith/New York Times Upfront, slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: stacked area graph Visualization Source: Smith, Patricia and Brooke Ross. "Out of Poverty." Scholastic Junior: May 2022.Smith, Patricia. "Can We End Extreme Poverty?" New York… Continue reading Extreme Poverty, by region (1990-2017)
Income Mobility Across Generations in OECD Countries
How many generations would it take for those born in low-income families to approach the mean income in their society?