Yahoo! Ask America Infographic: The Nation's Most Pressing Issues by JESS3
Launched earlier this month, Ask America is a unique midterm elections hub on Yahoo! News (the #1 news site) which gives a voice to the American voting public through non-traditional polling on a large scale. Ask America is collecting data from its millions of users on topics such as the economy, healthcare, immigration and more – below is a graphic that visualizes that data and brings the numbers to life (infographic is created by JESS3’s Data Visualization team). This graphic answers the question “What are the nation’s most pressing issues?” and simply breaks down the responses by 1,671,267 citizens by gender, answer, and, of course, issue at hand. The issue’s importance to the people is then represented by the size of the light bulb it lives in. With this eye-catching illustration, it’s simple to see, for example, that almost two thirds of people polled believe that America can still maintain its superpower status despite China's speedy economic rise.
