Had a lot of fun working on this one. Isn’t it nice when an episode makes it easy to think of datapoints? I’m glad to have garnered some interest of some excellent designers, so look out for some other people’s work on here in weeks to come. Again, if you are interested in contributing, just send me an email and we can talk it over.
Today I was wondering about whether there is maybe a Processing sketch that I could feed the This American Life audio file and it would spit out a 900px waveform to add to the bottom of of these posts. I’m not too good with that kind of thing, but if you are & have suggestions, I’d love to hear from you in the comments or by email.
I’m pretty sure that Audacity + screen capture can do what you want. Forgive me if I just don’t understand you.
-JAK
Yeah, I’d thought of that, but I’d like to have it be able to be exported as a vector file or similar so it would fit in stylistically with the rest of the graphic. Maybe I will try that out though.
Just discovered this site (via link from TAL). Fantastic idea! Thank you for doing this.
More source citations would be helpful — authoritative sources are important for credibility.
Note — small cut-and-paste typo in the 75% disagreeing caption: the word “hometown” is left over from the 75% agreeing caption.
Again, I love this idea, and I hope you keep it going!
Love your work. Just FYI, the bottom right text makes no sense.
The rate (0.8%) for white juveniles is twice as great as the rate for black juveniles (1.6%) but this doesn’t mean that twice as many were waived to criminal court.
0.8% of 1000 = 8
1.6% of 100 = 1.6
I’m not saying your info is wrong, just that the word choice is off. You need to present the total number of offenders to claim that “twice as many” black juveniles were waived.
This is totally nit-picky but it’s an important clarification.