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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from wireless_chris]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You may also enjoy http://www.chartoftheday.com/  Mostly financial, but it is important.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from risingstarlp]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I would like to see a chart that shows the amount of US corporation owned by the US government by year, as a histogram.  It's not the number that matters, it's the trend or &quot;change.&quot;  Ohh was that what Obama was talking about?  

The amount of corporations that Obama would either &quot;regulate&quot; (force) out of profitability or try to completely replace with his government programs is another graph entirely.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from mnemonik]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have been trying like hell to make Wolfram|Alpha give me some good statistics on home appliance energy consumption, but I have yet to make it give me an kind of useful results whatsoever.

I guess google-fu doesn't translate in to Wolfram-fu. Anyone else want to give it a shot? www.wolframalpha.com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from zmitty21]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Bill Maher's show, when are you going to be a guest?  I think you would be great in the panel discussion forum that is set up on a weekly basis, plus Mr Maher and yourself share opinions on several topics.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from WriteousMom]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[yes, please.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Dalebert7]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bill Maher chart was based on dollars, not number of companies. There are, of course many different ways to measure the assets of companies and determine how much is owned by the government, but I think that the amount of government corporate ownership compared to all of the coprorate assets in the whole US economy would be very small no matter how you measured it. This is especially true when you consider that we (as &quot;owners&quot; of the government) will probably end up owning nothing.

What would be more interesting might be to see the amount owned by our own government versus the amount owned by foreign governments (maybe not outright, but by virtue of government ownership of corporations in their own country).

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from beatesorum]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you like graphs you should read Jessica Hagys funny little simplifications of all things human on www.thisisindexed.com - they're great:)

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from gnslngr45]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[My job is # analysis. Those #s can often be hard to see their significance - until you put them on a graph. I love graphs. I wonder though if graphs are more compelling to men than women since men are more visual. Like maps and written directions. Most women i know want just the written directions. Men however, like to have to visual of the map.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from iainparker]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Remember this strip about dashboards...
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-05-16/]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from bmackey]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As Benjamin Disraeli said &quot;There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.&quot;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from hatchm]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[mmmmm.....pie.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from ceekay]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Try this - http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
Also, a great initiative by the speaker - http://www.gapminder.org/

Best presentation of data I've ever seen.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from rbgos]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This Bill Maher chart - was it simply the percentage of companies controlled by the government, or was it weighted somehow.  If so, how?  By turnover?  By stock market value?  By number of employees?  Each would give a very different result.  If a GM counts as one, and the mom-and-pop owned general store also counts one, that's a pretty misleading pie chart.  GM should count the same as maybe 10,000 small businesses, (unless you count by stock market value, in which case it's probably worth less than one local carpet warehouse).

There is also a worrying trend for making pie charts look prettier by tipping them over so they look &quot;3D&quot;, but this puts a misleading emphasis on items towards the bottom of the pie - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8014539.stm (second article half-way down the page).

But, if we can trust our news providers to be
a) impartial
b) responsible
c) thorough in compiling the numbers
then I wholeheartedly support this idea!!!

Most of the time, I believe the BBC and The Times (the UK newspaper, not the NY Times which I'm not really familiar with)  meet these criteria.  Which US news sources would you trust?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from backslash68]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, I agree completely, and there is a great web site which is FULL of graphs on main social/economic indicators about different countries, with the ability to compare countries and create animations of bubble graphs to spot trends... just check it out: 

http://www.gapminder.org/  

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from harikrishnancr]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A pie showing the number of US corporations controlled by the government is misleading 
 
A pie showing the percentage of revenues by US corporations controlled by the government would provide an accurate picture]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from rangerwinslow]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I like the chart idea.

On a side note, it'd be nice if they would put any and all figures in context when quoted in the news.  

It's usually along the lines of &quot;x people came down with disease y last year.&quot;  Is that normal?  High?  Low?  Out of how many people in the state/country/world that are even susceptible to it?  

I mean if two people die in an accident out of two possible people, that is horrible.  If two people die in an accident involving, say, a thousand people on a Tokyo bullet train, it's obviously bad but nowhere near as bad in the overall context.

Since the talking heads obviously don't fathom numbers, they spew them out without any context and we're supposed to be impressed that they can read them I guess.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from jcdill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's a pie chart, not a bar graph, but take a look at this one:

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/tips/home_energy.html]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Kosmo60]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is interesting, but what they hide is everything.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Peter Whelan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Regarding
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
if you jump to &quot;GDP and child death&quot; section by hovering your mouse just above the playback indicator, thats the section showing off the gapminder graphing tech]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Peter Whelan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the kind of meaningful charts you are talking about, with data about Africa in this example, check out this short video
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html]]></description>
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