Lexis-Diagramm zum Leben aller 45 US-Präsidenten. Farbige Abschnitte jeder Linie stellen die Amtszeit und die Partei dar, zu der sie im Amt waren. Die vier im Amt ermordeten Präsidenten sind mit schwarzen Punkten dargestellt, die fünf lebenden Präsidenten mit grünen Punkten. Die Linien liegen im 45-Grad-Winkel, da die Menschen 1 Jahr alt werden.
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Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States) (Tenures) and [https://www.loriferber.com/research/presidential-facts-statistics/presidential-birthdates.html?srsltid=AfmBOorsWxSXQml3QPoSdxi6EHk_2t0wp7PUdgwyA1Q_inWVu06eN7rB](https://www.loriferber.com/research/presidential-facts-statistics/presidential-birthdates.html?srsltid=AfmBOorsWxSXQml3QPoSdxi6EHk_2t0wp7PUdgwyA1Q_inWVu06eN7rB) (Births/Deaths). Tools: Python with NumPy and matplotlib.
Pretty odd that Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Donald Trump were all born in 1946. Post war babies.
Id put the bars of their lifetime straight and make the ce years the diagonals, would be way easier to read. Effectively rotate the graph 45%
It is 2026 and the US has only had one president born latter than 1947.
Wow US presidents really be aging linearly. Fascinating!
Fascinating! I’ve never seen a lexis diagram before, but it makes a lot of intuitive sense
Okay, how interesting would it be to be building this chart and then realize that one of the lines isn’t parallel.
And this is how you discover that there is a human who we view them as experiencing time at a rate different than everyone else.
And that person was a president.
Suggestions for improvement:
* Overlaps and near overlaps (ike Clinton, GW Bush and Trump) — offset the bold term line away from their life line. Right now they look like consecutive terms where the president switched their political affiliation.
* Mark assassinations with a different color, black is not distinct enough. Red would be a good choice, but it’s used for GOP presidents. Purple is another possibility.
* Consider adding vertical lines to connect end of a term of one person with start of another. Those vertical lines could be different colors to mark the reason (end of term, death, resignation)
* Consider adding a lighter shade to mark where a president was formerly a vice president and ascended into presidency (directly like George HW Bush, or indirectly like Biden or Nixon)
Kinda useless when you don’t know their names…
I’ve been trying to find a viz like this for this data and I’m glad you made it!
The reason I was interested is because I wanted to see the clusters and gaps of birth years to see which generations have had a disproportionate influence.
I think there are two changes I would make to serve that purpose, if you’re interested.
One is that the lines should be transparent so that you can show 1946 as a cluster because it would be a darker line.
The second would be to graph the percent change in birth rate over time in the background.
Seems the 1860s generation also had a stranglehold on politics for quite some time back in the day like the boomers. Same with the 1910s. I wonder what the next generation after the boomers that will have this kind of dominance. Based on the patterns, millenials/zoomers would make sense.
There was a similar visualization posted a last year or so where the lifetimes were horizontal bars. That was much easier to read.
Oh how I long for the day when one of those green beacons of light turns to the cold shade of grey for all of time and he will henceforth be know as „he who should always be shamed“.