Piketty in R markdown

That distorted graph is pretty explainable by the fact that he has only 6 data-points, and that by default Excel's graphs just treated those dates as labels (instead of a time series).

Great project. I&#x27;m only about 15% into the book according to my Kindle, but it&#x27;s interesting enough that I&#x27;m definitely going to check out the status of this project when I finish it. (could be a couple of months at the rate I&#x27;m going now)<p>The validity of the numbers depends on more than just the maths though, do you guys plan on going through the sources as well?

mmmm should you not consider the World Top Incomes Database?<p><a href="http://topincomes.g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;topincomes.g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu&#x2F;</a>

I think the book and the data is very interesting. But, I&#x27;m curious - why the effort? Isn&#x27;t his book, data, and reputation as an economist &#x2F; historian vetted by other experts in his field? Certainly they&#x27;d be the best people to say whether his methodology and conclusions are legit or not.<p>That is, do we really care about what the FT says? To me it&#x27;s similar to the Washington Times making a statement about a book on evolution.