Wednesday 1.23
Politics / Orientation
While 43 percent support the construction of a border wall — compared to 49 percent who oppose construction — only 7 percent of voters said that they support dedicating funding to a border wall if it was the only way to end the government shutdown.
NOTE from Politico after original article posted:
The story originally reported that only 7 percent of voters said that they support dedicating funding to a border wall if it was the only way to end the government shutdown and 72 percent oppose. That question was not asked among all voters, but more narrowly among voters who said they oppose the construction of the border wall.
Thursday 1.24
Sports / Size
Rockets' James Harden hits 30-point mark for 21st straight game
-ESPN
Points scored in each game taken from Basketball Reference
Friday 1.25
Racial Justice / Hue
The new analysis by Columbia postdoctoral researcher Naomi Zewde looks at what kind of effect such a nest egg would have on our racial wealth gap. It’s a pretty stark divide: Zewde estimates that in 2015, the median white person aged 18 to 25 had a net worth of $46,000. The median black person, by contrast, had a median net worth of $2,900. That’s a ratio of 15.9: White young people were nearly 16 times richer than their black counterparts.
-Vox
Saturday 1.26
Culture / Position
Roma and The Favourite lead the pack [of 2019 Oscar nominees], with 10 nominations each. The two films will go up against one another in the Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay categories.
-Vox
Sunday 1.27
Mapping (Police Killings) / Value
According to Mapping Police Violence's dataset of police killings, 35 of New York's 62 counties had at least one of its citizen killed at the hands of the police from 2013 through 2018. Kings County (Brooklyn) saw the highest number of these victims with 25 killings. New York County (Manhattan) was close behind at 20. Read more about this data source here.
NOTE: This map was constructed using the free Map of New York with Counties - Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com – a fully layered, editable vector map file. All maps come in AI, EPS, PDF, PNG and JPG file formats. County layers are not named. 2013 US Census Bureau data.
Monday 1.28
Politics / Texture
There were 7 senators that voted for both Trump's and the Democrat's competing bills to end the government shutdown on Thursday, January 24th – 6 republicans and 1 democrat. Both bills failed to pass, while the House passed a continuing resolution (CR) on Friday, January 25th, which re-opened the government temporarily for three weeks.
Senators that voted for Trump's plan are represented by groups of lines moving up and to the right, while senators that voted for the Democrat's plan are represented by groups of lines moving up and to the left. The 7 senators that voted for both are shown where both lines intersect.
Data from The New York Times
Tuesday 1.29
Financial Markets / Shape
216 of the 500 stocks within the S&P 500 index gained value on January 23, 2017 – the first full trading day after Trump was inaugurated. 284 stocks lost value throughout trading on that day.
NOTE: this is of the 500 stocks that in the Kaggle dataset for that day – the S&P500 actually contains 505 stocks. I determined whether a specific stock gained or lost value by comparing their open and close prices during that day of trading.
Data from Kaggle