Paths to Power: How Every Member Got to Congress
An interesting visualization from the New York Times, showing the education and career path of each member of the 116th congress. It outlines how a large number of representatives go through similar milestones, which are divided in three categories (education, career, government). I was surprised to see that party affiliation does not appear to make a big difference in a representative's career path. With the exception of a few steps like non-profit work, milestones are distributed equally between democrats and republicans. The horizontal axis is not meaningful: I wonder if this would be easier to read as a simple parallel coordinates visualization. The large number of paths also makes it difficult to unveil relations between milestones: did more representatives with career in private law attend public or private college? It would be cool to be able to select a single milestone and see all paths going through it (the visualization allows to hover and view a single path at a ti