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Sun, 26 Aug 2007
Amazing Graphic at NYT
If you wondered why the New York Times is thought as one of the world's
best newspapers, here's a demonstration.
A few weeks ago, there was a minor storm in the blogosphere over a restatement of NASA's figures about mean annual temparatures in the U.S. At the time, I'd actually tried to make sense of the various blog posts to figure out who's right and who's not. But the mess of data and (mis)information was just too much. Andrew Revkin wrote an article on that episode. It included this graphic:
What a clear, informative way of conveying the various pieces of data! It simultaneously conveys that: (1) there are two different sets of Top-10 rankings, (2) only some of the years have changed ranks between the two sets, and (3) the rank-change is because of underlying numbers that actually changed very little between the two sets.
Of course, this is not to say the NYT can't be bone-headed and biased at times (e.g., Somini Sengupta's reporting is usually annoying).
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