#MakeoverMonday: Tax Havens

tax havens

$2.1 trillion dollars? We are used to hearing monetary values like that, but what does 2.1 trillion dollars look like? It’s such a huge number, I thought it would be good to relate it to other types of expenditure.

It is astonishing that the offshore money is 2/3 the size of the entire US federal budget.

This weeks source was in need of a makeover. Pie charts aren’t a great way to show this data (read Stephen Few’s classic “Save the pies for dessert” for a great explanation). Making a pie with so many slices renders everything virtually unreadable.

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