23 Mar 10 Health Care, Money, Influence and the Uninsured

Regardless on what your stance is on the US healthcare debate, it sure is interesting to look at data about it.I’ve recently been experimenting with Tableau for doing data analysis. In short it is fast and awesome for finding new ways of looking at massive data tables. Ways that can actually provide insight.This table below shows the distributions of money, influence and the uninsured. It is disturbing how well the campaign contribution amounts correlate to the way the distribution of the votes.

Most of this is a moot point though, without a public option there isn’t going to be the competition required to make health care affordable for many Americans.Thanks to Tableau, the Washington Post and Map Light for the data.