Seeing a state-vs-state comparison is interesting, but it really doesn't mean all that much to say that people making under $25,000/year take in 24.7% of the country's income, at least not unless you tell us how many people make up that "under $25k" demographic.
I have a few negative points to make about this graph.<p>1) Maps are generally useful for area-based values, not population-based. A simple bar graph is equally as informative.<p>2) The bin sizes are unequal "below 40" and "above 60" bins may be misleading depending on how many states fall into those bins. Why bin at all? Just select a color in the colormap associated with that states value.. The bins are even worse on the state-by-state graph (25k bins mixed with 50k bins).<p>3) I'm left to assume that the %'s in the state-by-state section is % of households in the state, but it's not clearly stated and could be interpreted as % wealth or something.. And the national breakdown would be better in-line with the other states (but segregated) so that a state can be eyeball-compared to the national breakdown.<p>4) green/blue is usually associated with low values and red/orange with high. I understand why the colors were chosen, but it took me a couple of seconds before I realized I was interpreting them backward.<p>B-<p>Interesting surprises (to me anyway): Oregon, Utah, and Maine
OK, I read the infographic and its parent article, but I still haven't seen where they are sourcing the data from. Is this mint data? US Government data?<p>Edit: as both posts say below, it's from the US Census Bureau. I didn't see it when reading from my phone. Thanks!