The latest Spider-man movie, Spider-man: Homecoming, has high hopes for the Marvel Comic Universe just as Wonder woman from the DC universe proved a huge success. The Marvel and DC comic universes both have some great superheros, but only a few of them are succeeding at the box office. I wanted to compare these super-hero […]
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Anybody who ever wanted to find out the specifics of philanthropy in the US knows to read Giving USA, the authoritative report on the charitable contributions of individuals and organizations as well as the recipients of these gifts. I’ve used the report countless times to learn about the trends and to do benchmarking. I’ve also […]
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After President Trump declared that the U.S. was pulling out of the Paris agreement on climate change, the New York Times and Washington Post published a couple of stories. In these stories, they included a few charts. They caught my eye and I wanted to see whether I could tell similar stories and draw some […]
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We know that the NY Times data visualizations are pretty awesome, but the Wall Street Journal’s data visualizations are nothing to laugh at. In fact, one of my favorite books on data visualization is by Dona Wong, the former graphics editor of Wall Street Journal and a student of Ed Tufte at Yale (and yes, […]
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Undoubtedly, the New York Times publishes the best data visualizations and infographics that are data intensive, yet are elegant. The elegance comes from carefully studying the data, identifying the key patterns and simplifying the graphics to show these patterns or trends. Here’s what Amanda Cox, editor of The Upshot, said in an interview “we probably […]
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