April 2009
5 posts
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Tax Freedom Day
We’ve posted a new featured chart this morning, showing the power of data set joins on Verifiable.com. After one of our users uploaded a great data set listing Tax Freedom Day for each state, I wondered what the implications of low taxes were for a state’s population. I searched for other data sets to join it with (by state), and in just a few minutes came up with this.
The Tax...
What's the best way to tell this story?
Over at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, there is a discussion of this chart:
There has been some criticisms of it, and I posted the following reply. I encourage you to check out the whole discussion. My reply:
As the author of the chart in question, it’s neat to read this discussion and criticism. (Someone cares!)
I chose a stacked bar chart after...
Public Launch Of Verifiable.com!
Hi Everyone, First, thanks for all your support through our public beta. We really appreciate everyone’s great suggestions. If we haven’t acted on them yet, then feel secure in knowing that they are on The List. On that note, check out our great new mechanism for voting on which changes you want next. Today’s release is the first step in what we hope will be an amazing tool.
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What a long strange trip it's been (part deux)
Hi Everyone, The last time I blogged about what a long strange trip it’s been was July 23, 2008, when we launched the public beta. We have been working like crazy, not just on bugs and features, but on the whole production environment. You may have read our blog entry: Public launch of Verifiable.com! And wondered what is this thing you call Verifiable? :-)
Since everyone is pushing for...