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Senator Cory Booker still hasn’t made the cut for the next Democratic debate, despite having all the moderate bona fides that a suburban voter could want. Why has Booker failed to pop up in the polls?
Guest: Slate’s Jordan Weissmann. Read his piece, “Dear Moderates: Please Give Cory Booker a Chance.”
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We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous―and easier to share than ever. We associate charts with science and reason; the flashy visuals are both appealing and persuasive. Pie charts, maps, bar and line graphs, and scatter plots (to name a few) can better inform us, revealing patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. In short, good charts make us smarter―if we know how to read them.
However, they can also lead us astray. Charts lie in a variety of ways―displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns, and concealing uncertainty―or are frequently misunderstood, such as the confusing cone of uncertainty maps shown on TV every hurricane season. To make matters worse, many of us are ill-equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even our employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate them to promote their own agendas.
In How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information (W. W. Norton, 2019), data visualization expert Alberto Cairo teaches us to not only spot the lies in deceptive visuals, but also to take advantage of good ones to understand complex stories. Public conversations are increasingly propelled by numbers, and to make sense of them we must be able to decode and use visual information. By examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, How Charts Lie demystifies an essential new literacy, one that will make us better equipped to navigate our data-driven world.
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In episode three of this five-part miniseries on the Iowa caucuses, we dive into the all-important race to lock down the state’s key endorsements. These campaign surrogates, always critical, loom particularly large for the five US Senators running who may have to spend the bulk of January in impeachment hearings. We’ll also dig into all the criticisms of the Iowa caucuses, from the demographics of the state to the charge that the caucuses themselves are undemocratic. Plus: a ukulele. The series is hosted by Tommy Vietor and produced by Pineapple Street Studios.
The news to know for Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019!
What to know today about the NATO Summit, the first major gun rights case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in a decade, and what a new large-scale study found about preventing depression.
Plus: a new tool for doctors, a new 5G network, and how researchers are saving coral reefs...
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
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New Tariffs: Washington Post, NYT, WSJ, CNBC
NATO Summit: TIME, Washington Post, AP
Impeachment Reports: The Hill, CBS News
Supreme Court Gun Rights Case: NBC News, The Hill, CNN, Washington Post
More Snow in Northeast: Weather Channel, NYT, AP
Sound Saves Coral Reefs: Fox News, TechCrunch
Depression Study: NYT
Amazon Transcribe Medical: Engadget, CNBC
T-Mobile 5G: CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge
Lil Bub Dies: People, The Verge
Giving Tuesday: USA Today, Givingtuesday.org, Forbes
In this episode, Sam and Carter are both out of town so Rivers is flying solo on this one talking, once again, to comedian and history professor Dr. Ben Sawyer! Ben and Rivers run through some of their favorite historical topics: do-nothing presidents of the mid-1800s, the extremely antiquated 1955 movie Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (Now streaming on Disney+), and just how many times Hitler almost died (it was a lot!). We also put Randy Taylor, the man behind the "Jimmy Dean Sausage Complaint" YouTube clip, into the Goods from the Woods Hall of Fame! Follow Ben on Twitter @SawyerComedy and listen to his INCREDIBLE podcast, The Road to Now. Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod. Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Dr. Pat is @PM_Reilly Mr. Goodnight is @SepulvedaCowboy Subscribe on Patreon for a Bonus Episode every week! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
“After I began to volunteer with this alderman and learn the ways of the Democratic Party … I began to question some of the narratives,” says Gianno Caldwell, author of “Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed.” He found himself wondering, “Why is it that although these politicians come every year during election time, why is it the conditions and the communities never get better?” That was the beginning of his journey to the right.
We also cover the following stories:
· The Supreme Court hears the first major gun rights case in almost a decade.
· President Trump criticizes Democrats for having impeachment hearings during a NATO event.
· Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says social media shouldn't censor politicians.
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We discuss how a demand for more diverse clip art helped lay the foundation for some of the first black owned and operated software companies in the United States, and the ways in which social media has helped to empower a new generation of voices to demand change in the tech industry and beyond.
You can check out some of the pioneering work on building digital community at Afrolink, NetNoir, and UBP.
McIlwain also draws attention to the history of computer technology as a tool of police surveillance, going all the way back to the Police Beat algorithm in 1968.
You can find out more about Prof McIlwain here. You can purchase his book here.
We also spend some time this week talking about our new community initiatives.
Sara, along with Juan Garza from our community team, wrote a big post outlining all the work we’re hoping to do in 2020 and how we’re using data to inform the changes we are making.
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