Tuesday, October 28, 2014

3 News Articles/Reports Utilizing Data Tables

1. Higher Education
http://www.highereducation.org/reports/affordability_supplement/affordability_1.shtml
This site offers an article detailing the rise in the price for higher education. It shows multiple maps with color coding as to which states are rising their cost more than others. It also has a table showing the change in state appropriation for higher education. It succeeds in clearly showing the rate at which tuition rose in 2003, the beginning of the recession.

2.US News
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/01/02/puerto-ricos-population-continues-rapid-decline
This article is about the rapid decline in population of Puerto Rico, written just in January of this year. The article suggests that Puerto Rico's rapid decline is due to economic stress. The chart effectively shows the severity of the population decline compared to American states.

3. National Climate Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/cliihis100.html
This article from 2008 shows the change in weather over the previous 100 years. This article illustrates using graphs that our population growth has had a direct effect on our climate and carbon dioxide levels.

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