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Visualization of U.S presidents' approval ratings

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Re: Visualization of U.S presidents' approval ratings

#2
It would be helpful if impossible points were the background colour (for example, 60/50 or 50/60, 40/70 or 70/40, etc) so that the big mass of whitespace is less distracting and it is more evident when neutral people shifted to one opinion or if people flip-flopped.

Re: Visualization of U.S presidents' approval ratings

#6
Funny how time can sometimes heals all wounds. Contrast Truman's approval ranking on the graph from the OP's post with his aggregate ranking in this table from Wikipedia, where he is ranked in the first quartile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presiden...

Re: Visualization of U.S presidents' approval ratings

#7

The interface is pretty nice. Why are you plotting approval vs disapproval? These aren't independent quantities... I'm sure there is a better way to relate these two.

Approval + disapproval is almost always less than 100 in most polls.

Re: Visualization of U.S presidents' approval ratings

#9

The interface is pretty nice. Why are you plotting approval vs disapproval? These aren't independent quantities... I'm sure there is a better way to relate these two.

Maybe approval visit year of election(or when the poll was taken) I think that would show a downward tendency.

Re: Visualization of U.S presidents' approval ratings

#10

The interface is pretty nice. Why are you plotting approval vs disapproval? These aren't independent quantities... I'm sure there is a better way to relate these two.

Approval + disapproval is almost always less than 100 in most polls.

Right, thus the dependence between the two quantities.
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