Yesterday the NY Times published a highlight text table that accompanied an editorial by Charles M. Blow about guns in America. His lead states:
"Sometimes I think the best argument is raw data. This is one of those times."
I could not disagree more strongly. In his conclusion he finally gets to the story he is trying to tell when he says:
"In fact, America has more homicides by gun than all of the other high-income O.E.C.D. countries combined. It’s just shameful."
I couldn't agree more. It is unfortunate that he wasted this opportunity to demonstrate his point with a more appropriately designed data visualization. Here is my remake of his text table:
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/Firearms/Death?:embed=y
Thoughts?
--Shawn
Here is the NYT graphic:
