{"id":10923,"date":"2007-05-17T09:24:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/17\/were-eating-more-beets.html"},"modified":"2007-05-17T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T16:24:03","slug":"were_eating_more_beets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/were_eating_more_beets.html","title":{"rendered":"“We’re Eating More Beets!”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever since the original Doonesbury strip appeared lampooning USA Today<\/em>‘s little informatic news blurb\/graphs (a popular enough strip to warrant making it the title of one of Trudeau’s collections<\/a>), I’ve been fascinated by the newspaper’s use of these “news snapshots.”  Even as they’ve grown graphically more sophisticated, they’ve still been just as simple (or simplistic) in their information as they ever were.<\/p>\n

Via J-Walk<\/a>, here’s a study<\/a> (PDF) about how USA Today<\/em> uses bar graphs.  And here’s a massive collection<\/a> of the things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since the original Doonesbury strip appeared lampooning USA Today’s little informatic news blurb\/graphs (a popular enough strip to warrant making it the title of one of Trudeau’s collections),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6380,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/two_in_one_blow.html","url_meta":{"origin":10923,"position":0},"title":"Two in one blow","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Sep-04 3:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Blink. 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