Change the data, change the economy
Fantastic article (as usual) on the Guardian Datablog today — Simon Rogers and his team illustrate how the prevalence of poverty in the United States has gone up nearly 6.5% now that the U.S. Census Bureau has updated its evaluation methods.

Read the full article and see the visualizations
While the Fusion Tables map is cool, the clustered-column chart comparisons of how poverty has increased or decreased by age group, region and more is very illuminating. Definitely worth a full read.
-Momoko Price