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2010 admission rates at top schools drop
Admissions rates at top schools drop | Yale Daily News What Works The above graph was produced by Yale Daily News. It is clean and does a good job of displaying their admission status compared to their...
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Mapping the Measure of America | Human Development Index
Human Development Index Map Massachusetts Human Development Index What works Mapping the Measure of America is a social science project that deliberately includes information graphics as a...
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Returns to College Education
Trends in returns to college degrees, 1973-2009 What works Looking at change over time is often best when using simple trend lines. They are easy for the eye to follow – easier than if the same figures...
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Indexes of American Shame – Excel as a graphic design tool
American Shame | Charles Blow for the New York Times What works To social scientists: you can make your own information graphics with the programs you are already comfortable using. This graphic is...
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Evolution of an Infographic | UNDP & César A. Hidalgo
A recent (well, 2010 so not *that* recent) report from the UNDP traces the history of information graphics as tools for the promotion of public health. Illustrious crusaders from the yesteryear of...
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Reading, Writing, Earning | Bad GOOD graphic
Reading, Writing, and Earning Money | GOOD Transparency Blog What works Nothing is working for me with this graphic except possibly the few places where the designers offered detailed information about...
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Who is the Millennial Generation? | Pew Research
American Generation Age Timeline (Age measured in 2009) | Pew Research What works Pew Research has created a tidy series of interactive graphics to describe the demographic characteristics of American...
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Why aren’t more women in STEM?
Image created by EngineeringDegree.net What works It works to start with a provocative question. They make good use of the vertical layout by building in a vertical pagination. It’s a decent way to...
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Race and gender in higher education – who gets degrees?
Gender ratio of recent US graduates by degree | Laura Norén | click caption for pdf Is higher education “dominated” by women? There has been plenty of news coverage recently about the rise of women and...
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Congressional demographics
Congressional demographics | “Who are the members of Congress?” graphic by kiss me i’m polish from the textbook “We the people: An introduction to American politics” by Ginsberg, Lowi, Weir, and...
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