Publications by R on kieranhealy.org
Covid Trajectories
I updated the covdata package for the first time in a while, as I’ll be using it to teach in the near future. As a side-effect, I ended up taking a look at what the ongoing polarization or divergence of the COVID experience is like in different parts of the United States. Here I use county-level data to draw out some of the trends. The idea is ...
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Excess Deaths in 2020
Prompted by a guest visit to Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel’s Advanced Data Visualization class here at Duke, I’ve updated my US and state excess death graphs. Earlier posts (like this one from February) will update as well. I am interested in all-cause mortality in the United States for 2020. I look at each jurisdiction, ordered by how far off its 2...
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The Polarization of Death
I’m continuing to update the covdata package in anticipation of a Data Visualization for Social Science course I’ll teach next semester. I revisited the Partisan Trajectories graph, as it seems there’s more that could be done with it. More on that in the future, I hope. For now, here’s an updated version using the 2020 Presidential electi...
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Comparing Distributions
When we want to see how something varies across categories, the trellis or small multiple plot is a good friend. We repeatedly draw the same graph once for each category, lining them up in a way that makes them comparable. Here’s an example from my book, using the gapminder data, which provides a cross-national time series of GDP per capita for...
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Clustering Pundits
For the past view years, Jason Snell at Six Colors has conducted a survey of people who write about Apple. He asks a series of questions about the company and its products and presents a report of people’s answers. This year’s report has all the details for those interested. I’m a subscriber to Six Colors (it’s well worth it if you like t...
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