IZIAH THOMPSON

New York is an interesting city, and it didn't get this way by chance. City planners have been busy in the Big Apple for a long time. But planning is far from a perfect science. Did you know, with today's zoning laws 40% of the buildings in Manhattan couldn't be built?

Here are a few maps I made taking a look at the zoning breakdown of NYC.

In 2017, almost half of Americans wanted to increase anti-terrorism spending, but is that warranted? We know that Americans often perceive much greater risk regarding violent crimes than really exists. According to a Pew Report, the American public perceives crime to be more rampant than the data show.

Violent crime has generally trended downward since the early 90s. But in 18 of the 22 Gallup surveys on violent crime, since 1993, 60 percent of Americans surveyed said there was more crime in the U.S. compared with the year before. Given this, it’s important to consider the actual risks of issues like terrorism or anything else that harms us. Are we correctly assessing these risks? And more broadly, does government spending accurately reflect these risks?

Here are a few visualizations I created digging into risk in the United States, read my full analysis for People For Reason and Progress here.

A look at NYC Zoning 

Terrorism vs Other Causes of US Deaths

Following COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases
1/21/20-3/12/20

This is a world map showing new cases of COVID-9 also known as Coronavirus, from January 21, 2020 to March 12, 2020. The data used is from the World Health Organization (WHO). I used Tableau and OBS to create this visualization. The COVID-19 new cases data and others can be downloaded via Our World in Data's website: https://ourworldindata.org/coronaviru...

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