Reading the data

Data Points / book review, Economist

The Economist covered a handful of visualization books in this week’s issue, and Data Points was in the bunch (nice).

Here is the review’s accompanying video:

The American Time Use Survey recently released results for 2018. That makes 15 years of data. What’s different? What’s the same?

Jobs and pay can vary a lot depending on where you live, based on 2013 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here’s an interactive to look.

Unfortunately, while of varying magnitude, mass shootings are somewhat regular in the United States.

Looking at the 100 most common jobs people switched to, a timeline comes into view when we adjust the relative switch rates by age.