Re:The Geography of U.S. Inequality
by throwanem on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @10:01AM
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> That chart is data.
No chart is ever data. A chart, like the result of an SQL query, is a projection via analysis. The analysis may be trivial, or it may not. You can hide a lot in non-trivial analysis if you want to. I don't say that the NYT did so here (and I don't say that it didn't), but it's hard to have any kind of productive discussion when something this basic is overlooked.
No chart is ever data. A chart, like the result of an SQL query, is a projection via analysis. The analysis may be trivial, or it may not. You can hide a lot in non-trivial analysis if you want to. I don't say that the NYT did so here (and I don't say that it didn't), but it's hard to have any kind of productive discussion when something this basic is overlooked.