Tag: scale along the y-axis

*social justice, stacked area graph

Global Access to Electricity, 2000 – 2023

Jenna Laib

Global Access to Electricity, 2000 - 2023 The global number of people without access to electricity has halved since 2000, but it has increased in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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A Human on a Bicycle is Among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel

Jenna Laib

A Human on a Bicycle is Among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom (update on a classic 'Scientific American' graph)

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Countries That Pay Their Olympic Gold Medalists The Most, Paris 2024 (English + Français)

Jenna Laib

Countries That Pay Their Olympic Gold Medalists The Most (Paris 2024)

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Comparing Serena Williams’ Age with Her Opponent’s

Jenna Laib

Comparing Serena Williams' Age with Her Opponent's Making sense of association with bivariate data (*suggested by someone I met at the DS4E event at NCTM. I spoke with so many people that I can't remember which conversation this came from, so if it was you: e-mail me!)

*social justice, line graph

Share of US University Degrees Going To Women (1870 – 2020)

Jenna Laib

Share of US University Degrees Going To Women (1870 - 2020)graph by StaDaFa; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: line graph Visualization Source: Statistics_Data_Facts, “Share Of University Degrees Going To Women.” StaDaFa.com: January 2023. Data Sources: U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Earned Degrees Conferred,… Continue reading Share of US University Degrees Going To Women (1870 – 2020)

#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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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