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By David Mendoza - Thursday, September 1, 2016






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Donald...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/149817749716</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/149817749716</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:33:44 -0400</pubDate><category>dataviz</category><category>infographics</category><category>maps</category><category>cartography</category><category>data journalism</category><category>data visualization</category><category>data</category><category>ddj</category></item><item><title>During A Presidential Election Year, 6 Supreme Court Justices Have Been Confirmed Since 1900</title><description>By David Mendoza - Sunday, February 14, 2016

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died yesterday....</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/139322221114</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/139322221114</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2016 18:30:29 -0500</pubDate><category>dataviz</category><category>data visualization</category><category>supreme court</category><category>obama</category><category>notorious rbg</category><category>politics</category><category>SCOTUS</category><category>antonin scalia</category></item><item><title>How Many People Did The Police Kill in 2015?</title><description>By David Mendoza - Monday, January 4, 2016


Throughout last year, The Guardian recorded the number...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/136638197626</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/136638197626</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:42:41 -0500</pubDate><category>dataviz</category><category>data visualization</category><category>police killings</category><category>police shootings</category><category>data journalism</category><category>infographics</category><category>infographic</category><category>police brutality</category></item><item><title>Donald Trump Is Wrong: Most White People Are Killed By Other White People</title><description>By David Mendoza - Monday, November 23, 2015

Yesterday, Donald Trump retweeted an egregiously...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/133821790071</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/133821790071</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:29:33 -0500</pubDate><category>politics</category><category>news</category><category>data visualization</category><category>dataviz</category><category>donald trump</category></item><item><title>The Disparate Racial Impact of the American Death Penalty</title><description>By David Mendoza - Sunday, June 7, 2015

In the current issue of the journal Politics, Groups, and...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/120961302906</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/120961302906</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2015 16:25:43 -0400</pubDate><category>dataviz</category><category>data visualization</category><category>infographic</category><category>infographics</category><category>ddj</category><category>chart</category><category>charts</category></item><item><title>Zero Tolerance: Why All Bar Charts Should Have A Zero Baseline</title><description>



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By David Mendoza - Monday, May 4,...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/118146423986</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/118146423986</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2015 17:55:57 -0400</pubDate><category>design</category><category>dataviz</category><category>data visualizations</category><category>infographic</category><category>infographics</category><category>washington post</category><category>ddj</category></item><item><title>It’s Still Legal to Discriminate Against LGBT Americans — Even If They Can Get Married</title><description>By David Mendoza - Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in the case that...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/117647923681</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/117647923681</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:52:46 -0400</pubDate><category>lgbt</category><category>infographic</category><category>infographics</category><category>dataviz</category><category>lgbtq</category><category>data visualization</category></item><item><title>3D Pie Charts Are Lie Charts</title><description>By David Mendoza - Monday, March 16, 2015

Despite the overwhelming evidence proving pie charts...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/113828947026</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/113828947026</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2015 20:13:52 -0400</pubDate><category>data visualization</category><category>dataviz</category><category>infographics</category><category>design</category><category>infographic</category><category>charts</category><category>chart</category><category>graphs</category><category>graph</category><category>pie chart</category><category>pie charts</category></item><item><title>Apocalypse Now: 
How The World Will End</title><description>By David Mendoza - Sunday, March 8, 2015

YouGov released a poll last week that asked Americans...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/113107118761</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/113107118761</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2015 18:20:03 -0400</pubDate><category>dataviz</category><category>data visualization</category><category>politics</category><category>charts</category><category>ddj</category><category>chart</category><category>graph</category></item><item><title>Maryland: The Millionaire State</title><description>

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By David Mendoza - Monday, February 16, 2015

Last month, Phoenix...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/111204136791</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/111204136791</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:00:37 -0500</pubDate><category>data visualization</category><category>maps</category><category>cartography</category><category>dataviz</category><category>maryland</category><category>map</category><category>infographics</category></item><item><title>This Is How Americans Die</title><description>By David Mendoza - Wednesday, January 28, 2015

At the end of last year, the Centers for Disease...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/109404572171</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/109404572171</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:40:00 -0500</pubDate><category>public health</category><category>data visualizations</category><category>dataviz</category><category>infographics</category><category>infographic</category><category>GIFs</category></item><item><title>Is It "Data Is" Or "Data Are"?</title><description>By David Mendoza - Monday, January 26, 2015

Last week, reddit hosted an AMA with Chris Ingraham of...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/109209771016</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/109209771016</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:16:00 -0500</pubDate><category>grammar</category><category>linguistics</category><category>data visualization</category><category>dataviz</category><category>infographics</category><category>infographic</category><category>writing</category></item><item><title>Americans Think Nursing Is The Most Honest Profession</title><description>By David Mendoza - Monday, January 19, 2015

Since 1999, among the 43 jobs that Gallup has asked...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/108597157951</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/108597157951</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:00:00 -0500</pubDate><category>dataviz</category><category>infographics</category><category>data visualization</category><category>infographic</category><category>graphs</category><category>charts</category><category>chart</category></item><item><title>When Police Raids Go Wrong</title><description>



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By David Mendoza - Tuesday, December 23, 2014

In 2006,...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/105956724281</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/105956724281</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 07:15:00 -0500</pubDate><category>data visualization</category><category>dataviz</category><category>infographic</category><category>infographics</category><category>police</category><category>civil rights</category><category>civil liberties</category><category>cato institute</category></item><item><title>Hundreds of Police Killings Go Unreported to the FBI</title><description>

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By David Mendoza - Monday, December 15, 2014

Earlier this...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/105272851456</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/105272851456</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:07:00 -0500</pubDate><category>politics</category><category>dataviz</category><category>blacklivesmatter</category><category>infographics</category><category>data visualization</category><category>infographic</category></item><item><title>Americans Don't Know the Violent Crime Rate Keeps Falling</title><description>






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By David...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/103476048126</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/103476048126</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:37:00 -0500</pubDate><category>dataviz</category><category>datavisualization</category><category>news</category><category>infographics</category><category>infographic</category><category>charts</category><category>chart</category><category>graphs</category><category>data visualization</category><category>data journalism</category></item><item><title>State Legislatures Are Total Sausage Fests</title><description>




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By David Mendoza -...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/101367185526</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/101367185526</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:44:00 -0400</pubDate><category>dataviz</category><category>data visualization</category><category>maps</category><category>cartography</category><category>news</category><category>feminism</category><category>infographics</category><category>infographic</category><category>charts</category></item><item><title>A Majority of LGBT Americans Can Now Get Married</title><description>

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By David Mendoza - Wednesday,...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/99487385371</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/99487385371</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:48:00 -0400</pubDate><category>lgbt</category><category>marriage equality</category><category>politics</category><category>dataviz</category><category>data visualization</category><category>maps</category><category>cartography</category></item><item><title>This Bubble Chart is Killing Me</title><description>




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By David Mendoza - Monday, August 25, 2014

Last week,...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/95757674381</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/95757674381</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:09:00 -0400</pubDate><category>dataviz</category><category>ice bucket challenge</category><category>vox</category><category>data visualization</category><category>chart</category><category>bubble chart</category></item><item><title>The Mendoza Line Is Now On Tumblr's Politics and Government Spotlight</title><description>

The fine folks at Tumblr recently added The Mendoza Line to its Politics and Government spotlight...</description><link>https://themendozaline.org/post/91974801506</link><guid>https://themendozaline.org/post/91974801506</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:51:00 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
