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David Sparks
David Sparks is a doctoral candidate in political science at Duke University, where he is a fellow in the Political Institutions and Public Choice pro...
How Congress Uses Twitter
In Congress, Republicans outnumber Democrats on Twitter 2 to 1, according to a diagram that looks at Tweets from both sides of the aisle.
Cash for Clunkers, Visualized
Graph shows that the U.S. government’s effort to shift car buyers to higher-efficiency vehicles was anything but a “Buy American” campaign.
Counting the Stars
Graphic representations of how movie stars and their critics rate, according to Metacritic.com.
An Economy of Change
Our spinogram allows you to watch the U.S. economy change before your very eyes.
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Partisan Portfolios
You’d be surprised to see what congressional Democrats and Republicans own.
The 1978 Ethics in Government Act requires the disclosure of certain financial information by some members of all three branches of the federal government, including a listing of investment holdings and their approximate value. This graphic shows the total amount owned (in millions of U.S. dollars) by U.S. senators and representatives in the top 50 most widely held companies as of 2007. The proportion of holdings in each company by party is shown with color (blue for Democrat and red for Republican, with brightness varying by degree of party ownership) and through offsets from a vertical center line. Very few companies evince an even partisan divide, and there appears to be a trend: Overall volume of investment in any given firm relates positively to the magnitude of Republican holdings in that company. The nature of companies with a strong partisan lean is also noteworthy (viz the tech firms Apple and Cisco for Democrats and energy behemoth Exxon Mobil for Republicans), as is the presence of organizations involved in recent federal bailouts, including major banks and the insurance giant American International Group.
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Gas Mileage Labels Get Sophisticated
The federal government has unveiled updated designs for those informational stickers on new cars. The hope is to nudge buyers into choosing more fuel-efficient models.
California Rejects Ban on Plastic Bags
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An Emotional Timeline of Sept. 11, 2001
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