New York Times Graphics

The New Pennsylvania Congressional Map, District by District

"Perhaps no event will do more to reshape the fight for control of the House than the new congressional map just released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court." NYT website 2/19/18   

See both new and old districts and change in balance that they create.

Visualizations: The Working Class Can’t Afford the American Dream

"The national conversation in the U.S. is focused squarely on improving the lives of people in the working class. The debate revolves around exactly how to do that. Politicians and pundits have all sorts of ideas, from efforts to save jobs, create tax cuts, subsidize housing, and provide universal healthcare. Thing is, people don’t even agree on how to define the working class, much less how their living conditions stack up across the country. We created a data visualization to illustrate this complex situation. " HowMuch Website Also includes visualizations of the real value of minimum wages, most productive countries, the cost of education and more.

 

New York Times Visualization: How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2017?

How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2017?

"Last year was the second hottest year on record. In
a database of more than 3,800 cities compiled by AccuWeather, about
88 percent recorded annual mean temperatures higher than normal."

NYTimes website viewed 2/1/2018:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/21/world/year-in-weather.html#bos 

Example from Boston, Massachusetts below. Enter your own city and see:

Map our city temperatures