Four Ways to Visualize US Income Inquality

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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Four Ways to Visualize US Income Inquality By Catherine Mulbrandon on Dec 12, 2013 02:56 pm View original post on blog » During the course of making my book, I tried to solve the problem of representing the extreme income inequality in the United States using several different graphic approaches. In some cases, I was working with a single data set like The World Top Incomes Database or the Congressional Budget Office. In others graphics, I combined this data with data from Forbes, IRS, and AR: Absolute Returns + Alpha. Treemap was created using R and the people icons were added in Illustrator, while the cumulative share graphs and the dot plots were create in OmniGraphSkecher.             More to read: 100 years of Family Spending in the US My Vision Statement in Harvard Business Review 6 Real World Examples of Exponential Growth in Powerpoint Sports and Income Changes in Income Growth Rates since 1970 AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO INCOME IN THE UNITED STATES is now available!  A comprehensive collection of infographics, maps and charts looking at the history of incomes and occupations in the United States.