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Hi there, I hope you had a relaxing summer! After a long summer break, it’s time to resume my weekly series ‘The Goody I Found (TGIF)’. Well, I start off playfully …

Quiz question: What …

For most Americans, this week’s ‘Goody I Found’ might not be ‘so good’.

The New York Times visualises the percentage change of Trump’s ‘Beautiful Big Bill’ on income by annual income household groups.

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It’s just too hot to write in-depth posts, so this week only a short Goody I Found.

Coloured maps – so-called choropleth maps – are not really my thing.
They distort the representation of information, because …

Today’s Goody I Found is about my “favourite (un-)color”: grey. 😊

Last week I came across a study by the English organisation ‘nesta’, which examined 7,083 photographs of everyday objects from the last 200 years …

In my post last week I wrote about the ‘interest-driven’ manipulation of axes. Due to current events, I’ll have to add another one …

But this time about truncating the 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗬-𝗮𝘅𝗶𝘀.

This Weeks Goody I found (TGIF) is about inflation and how to lie by cutting the x-axis …

Last Tuesday I stumbled across a visualisation of the British Conservatives in my Bluesky timeline posted by …

Todays “The Goody I Found” is a bit older, but fits in so well with Labour Day – the 1st of May – tomorrow …
I really like the ‘Pies of truth’ (“Torten der Wahrheit”) …

Today’s ‘The Goody I found’ (TGIF) is once again about Trump and the effects of his erratic government actions on tourism to the USA.

A month ago I wrote a post here about Treemaps and …

This weeks “The goody I found” is kind of an oldie – but goldie – and actually quite suitable …
The rabbit–duck illusion was first published in 1892 and it’s all about perspective. It can …