Visualizing Historical Political Party Identification in the Era of Trump
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
As many have noted, President Trump has shown a remarkable ability to maintain a strong base of support — about 40% of the voters — despite the myriad controversies swirling around him. Some clues about that base can be seen in the results of a fascinating survey taken recently by Pew Research Center to gauge Americans’ reaction to the Mueller investigation. Deep in the white paper released by Pew are historical numbers listing the percentages of Americans who either support one of the two major parties or consider themselves independents, many of whom admit leaning left or right . T ..read more
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How Wacky Has LA’s Weather Been in 2019? These Charts Help Explain
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
The famously temperate* weather in Los Angeles just can’t quite figure itself out this year. This year brought “Snowing in Calabasas!”, which was part of the “February to remembrrr”, and by April tempurates were unseasonably balmy. We also got rain and more rain and then some more rain. These charts help explain the wackiness (at least by Los Angeles standards): * Full disclosure: I grew up in Texas. The last full year I lived there, in 2010, the temperature reached 100 degrees during 69 days. “Temperate” is a relative word ..read more
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Visualizing Verified Twitter’s Reaction to Robert Mueller’s Investigation
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s now-concluded investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian influence over the 2016 presidential election was obviously a hot topic on Twitter. More than 400,000 tweets — an average about 600 per day — mentioned the word* “Mueller” since the former FBI chief was appointed to lead the investigation in May 2017, according to a dump (190MB csv) of verified user data pulled from the social network using Python and Twint. That interest spiked during key news events before skyrocketing on Friday and Sunday, when Mueller concluded the investigation and t ..read more
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Trump’s Approval Ratings are Resilient. How Does that Compare Historically?
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
Despite all the controversy attached to his presidency, Donald Trump has managed to retain a relatively consistent approval rating in the last two years — especially when compared to predecessors in the modern era. The president’s approval rating has climbed some in recent weeks after a significant decline in January, reverting to around the average during the last two years. Perhaps it’s the tribalism in American politics or the fragmented news ecosystem or the president’s skills as a communicator — but, for some reason, Trump hasn’t experienced the wide fluctuations of his predeces ..read more
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Visualizing a Year of @realDonaldTrump
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
President Trump thumbed his way through another year in the White House on Twitter, compiling a good (great) collection of 2,930 touts, complaints, defenses and rants. He left 2018 with this perplexing New Year’s Eve missive extolling the old-fashioned endurance of “Walls” and “Wheels” as one of his last. As the message shows, the president’s twitter presence lately is crowded by an increasingly evergreen list of grievances (Democrats, Russia, fake news, etc). Still, plenty of his messages actually correspond quite neatly with news events. Notice how the #maga hashtag, a political rallying cry ..read more
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Charting the Korean War’s Missing Troops
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
I wrote recently about the effort to get North Korea to return some of the remains of United States troops who are still unaccounted for since the Korean War. More than 7,000 troops — almost all presumed dead — never came home after the conflict, which ended with an armistice in 1953. There’s new hope that recent diplomacy between the United States and North Korea might allow some of those remains to come home. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, whose mission is to find these troops from several past conflicts and identify them, posts data on those from the Korean War. My friend Bob R ..read more
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Charting the GOP’s Congressional Exodus
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
Another Republican in the U.S. House — Speaker Paul Ryan, no less — announced his intention not to seek re-election in 2018, adding to the number of members leaving ahead of what’s expected to be an unfavorable mid-term environment for the party. Even before Ryan’s announcement, HuffPost reported that the number of GOP congressmen leaving the chamber, either for retirement or other offices, has hit numbers not seen in decades. His exit is likely to increase that number soon. This chart shows how the GOP members’ announcements over this cycle have cumulative outpaced their Democratic ..read more
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China’s Imbalanced Trade with the United States, in Four Charts
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
A trade war could be looming between the United States and China, fueled by President Trump’s fixation on the two nations’ unbalanced import-export relationship. The trade imbalance between the two countries — which might not hurt the United States that much — stems from the fact that China sells more to us than it buys, essentially. That’s largely driven by macroeconomic factors, not some malicious intent: China is a low-cost manufacturing powerhouse, and the United States is an economy dominated by domestic consumption. These charts help explain the $570 billion overall trade relat ..read more
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Chart: Republican Attacks on the FBI Have Worked, Especially on Republicans
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
HuffPost is out with an interesting poll about the the public’s trust in the FBI, which has been under attack recently for its role in the investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Trump and his supporters have been particularly tough on the bureau, and it shows in the polling data. A slim 51 percent majority of the public say they have at least a fair amount of trust in the FBI, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, down 12 points since 2015. Most of that change comes from Republicans and independents, among whom the percentage saying they trust the agency dropped by 22 points a ..read more
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Visualizing #NICAR18, Part II
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by Matt Stiles
2y ago
I posted recently about the NICAR journalism conference, held this year in Chicago — and it turns out news nerds like to tweet. To keep track of all the conference chatter, I dumped each mention of the #NICAR18 hashtag using Python, eventually collecting some 4,100 tweets. I used #nicar18 several times. Others were even more prolific. Here are those with more than 10 uses during the conference: Next, I created a histogram with average #nicar18 tweet counts by hour for the three full days: Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It shows when people sent the most tweets — and that they apparen ..read more
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