Author: George Gorczynski

This is my entry for the Tableau Ironviz qualifier contest. It is all about mobile design and Tableau 10’s new Device Manager. I intended to create a simple and functional visualization resembling a mobile app. When I played with the app and browsed through the data, the biggest surprise for me was the cost of apartments in Luanda, Angola. It didn’t seem right for the country whose GDP is so much lower than the rich European, Asian or North American superpowers. But apparently the data checks out and the high prices of properties in Luanda are the result of a limited...

In 2013, the Pew Research Global Attitudes Project asked over 40,000 respondents in 40 countries about their opinions on eight topics generally considered to be moral issues: Abortion Divorce Drinking alcohol Extramarital affair Gambling Homosexuality Sex between unmarried adults, and Use of contraceptives READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE ON OUR MAIN...

At the end of August, US president Barack Obama ordered a review of federal programs that enable local and state law enforcement agencies to receive or purchase military equipment. This decision was prompted by the unsettling images of heavily armed police officers during clashes that followed the recent fatal shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. Within one such federal program, the “1033 program” initiated in 1991, over $5.1 billion in military hardware was transferred to date to 8000 local and state law enforcement agencies in the United States… READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE ON OUR MAIN...