Tag: economy

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Have foreign tourists really avoided America this year? (2025)

Jenna Laib

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.

#savetheplanet, bar graph

Days Between Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters in the US

Jenna Laib

Days Between Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters in the USgraph by Climate Central; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Climate Central, “U.S. Billion-Dollar Disasters: 1980-2024.” Climate Central: July 16, 2025. Accessed at https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/billion-dollar-disasters-2025 Data Source: NOAA/NCEI, “Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters.” National… Continue reading Days Between Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters in the US

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US Shipping Exports (January – April 2025)

Jenna Laib

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)

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2025 Honesty and Ethics of Professionals Rankings (US/Gallup Poll)

Jenna Laib

2025 Honesty and Ethics of Professionals Rankings (US/Gallup Poll)graph by Gallup, slow reveal by Jenna Laib (suggested by Traci Higgins) (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: stacked bar graph Visualization Source: Saad, Lydia. "Americans' Ratings of U.S. Professions Stay Historically Low." Gallup: January 13, 2025 Data Source: Gallup Poll,… Continue reading 2025 Honesty and Ethics of Professionals Rankings (US/Gallup Poll)

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Amazon vs eBay was a close competition — until it wasn’t

Jenna Laib

Amazon vs eBay was a close competition -- until it wasn'tgraph by Hyunsoo Rim and David Crowther/Chartr, slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: line graph Visualization Source: Rim, Hyunsoo and David Crowther (2025). "eBay battled tech giants like Amazon and Meta for years. Now… Continue reading Amazon vs eBay was a close competition — until it wasn’t

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The History of Book Production in Western Europe: Innovation & Economic Growth

Jenna Laib

The History of Book Production in Western Europe: Innovation & Economic Growthgraph by Max Roser/Our World in Data, slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: line graph Visualization Source: Max Roser (2021) - “What is economic growth? And why is it so important?” Published online… Continue reading The History of Book Production in Western Europe: Innovation & Economic Growth

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Number of People Per Representative in the US (1789-2017)

Jenna Laib

Number of People Per Representative in the US (since nation's founding)graph by Drew DeSilver/Pew Research, slow reveal by Aristotle Ou (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: line graph Visualization Source: DeSilver, Drew (2018). "U.S. population keeps growing, but House of Representatives is same size as in Taft era." Pew Research Center: May 31, 2018. Data Source: Pew Research Center"Decennial census (for years… Continue reading Number of People Per Representative in the US (1789-2017)

*social justice, infographics, pictograph

Type of Worker (In Person, Hybrid, or Remote) in the US by Education Level

Jenna Laib

Type of Worker (In Person, Hybrid, or Remote) in the US by Education Levelgraph by Ben Casselman, Emma Goldberg and Ella Koeze/NY Times, slow reveal by Jeremy Knight (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: mosaic plot (infographic), frequency graph Visualization Source: Casselman, Ben, Emma Goldberg, and Ella Koeze. "Who… Continue reading Type of Worker (In Person, Hybrid, or Remote) in the US by Education Level

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Chocolate Consumption per Capita (2022, selected countries) — elementary and middle school versions

Jenna Laib

New #SlowRevealGraph (Not) Everyone Loves Chocolate Looking at the estimated chocolate consumption per capita, and how it compares to the revenue per capita and the total population. Elementary version with weights in pounds encourages fractional reasoning. Elementary version with weights in kilograms encourages reasoning about decimals and proportions. Middle school version uses metric measurement and also includes additional data about ratios and proportions.

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America’s Nepotism Problem: What fields do fathers pass on the most advantage to their sons?

Jenna Laib

How big is America's Nepotism? American data scientist and economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz gathered some data about men born in the mid-20th century and their fathers. It looks like certain professions are more prone to yielding Nepo Babies. Plus a great introduction to log scale!

*social justice, line graph

Life Expectancy Compared with GDP

Jenna Laib

Make a list of the countries where people live the longest. Would the list just read as a list of richest countries? Why or why not? Check out these scatterplots: one that focuses on comparing Latin America with other nations, and one that shows the whole world.