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IRS Tea Party Document Disclosure in One Chart 26 Jul 2013 | 10:34 pm
In response to a Congressional Ways and Mean committee request, the IRS has provided 13,000 pages of documents related to the Tea Party targeting scandal. That sounds like a lot, but only out of conte...
Flawed Statistical Thinking, the IRS, and Loooooooong Odds 21 May 2013 | 01:15 pm
Let’s say there’s a casino where you can’t choose to play. Everyone is forced to participate in the gamble and instead of winning money, the “winners” get punched in the face. A man plays at the dice ...
This Is How We Disappear 16 May 2013 | 10:30 pm
(Skip to point 5 for my personal post-mortem on the Romney campaign) I haven’t posted in 6 months and my Twitter presence (where I’ve usually done most of my interaction) has slowed to a crawl. I miss...
BLS Numbers: The Case For and Against Paranoia 12 Oct 2012 | 11:41 am
At first, I thought the BLS numbers for September were weird. I thought about commenting on them, but I’m very slow in writing blog posts (what with trying to understand things and run the numbers and...
Why Obama Is Always Talking About “Private Sector Jobs” 11 Sep 2012 | 12:09 pm
My latest video is from a talk I gave back in July at the RightOnline conference. I had 5 minutes to give a talk and I had something all planned out… until President Obama gave this speech in Clevelan...
How President Obama Is Using Your Address 5 Aug 2012 | 09:17 am
I’m a very pro-transparency type of guy in most respects. However, I’m also practical. For example, I’m very nervous about publicly available donation tracking information because it means I can’t qui...
BLS B Tables (Jobs By Industry) Treemap 6 Jul 2012 | 08:55 pm
I’m going to try something that is a little dependent on me always being on top of things. So I can tell you right now it’s a terrible idea. Nevertheless. I’ve been working for some time to make BLS...
Right Online 2012 Presentation 17 Jun 2012 | 05:39 am
Apologies for the fact that I don’t have the text of my presentation in here, but I wanted to post my presentation from m Right Online panel. Right Online Bad Data Presentation
Romney, Obama, and Executive Job Records 13 Jun 2012 | 11:29 pm
This is one of the Goose/Gander Visualization Series. Recently President Obama’s team has felt that attacking Romney’s jobs record in Massachusetts tests well in the sample group. These attacks got ...
The Goose/Gander Visualization Series 13 Jun 2012 | 10:37 pm
I’ve been inspired by the Obama administration to start a new series of visualizations. It was this tweet that inspired me: “See how well Mitt Romney’s promise to create jobs in Massachusetts worked ...
