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July 19, 2017

Trump is Historically Unpopular

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On the train this morning I was catching up on some reading and ran across this post from FiveThirtyEight about Trump's approval rating compared to past presidents at the 175-day mark. In the article, there's this table of the ratings:


The table is ok in that it lists the presidents in descending order by net approval rating. However, I thought a visual display would be more effective. I used Google Sheets to import the table and quickly connected it to Tableau and built a slope graph to more effectively display the data.

It only took about 15 minutes to build this, so I'm surprised FiveThirtyEight didn't include a visual. I wonder what their reasoning is for including a chart vs. a table. What do you think? Which view works better for you?

3 comments :

  1. rcrocker13July 19, 2017 at 11:54 AM

    I am a fan of visuals, so thanks for whipping this cool example together. I will also say that an increasing slope that's actually communicating a decline over time was a bit tricky to read. Maybe another form would be better or five thirty eight could've kept it to approval rating at inauguration and 6 months later so the slope can compare apples to apples?

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    1. VizWizJuly 19, 2017 at 12:21 PM

      Fair point. I put disapprove before approve and it looked a bit weird. Maybe a simple bar chart of the net approval rating would be even better.

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    2. ZahraJuly 19, 2017 at 3:05 PM


      I like the bar chart idea.

      Maybe put approve/disapprove for each president next to each other and put the net approval above in a visually striking way (like you've done here)? With the actual approve and disapprove numbers inside wach bar, at the bottom or in the middle, in muted colors and smaller font.

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