It looks like a bar chart, but it reads differently. The baseline is continuous instead of discrete categories, which allows one to see distributions.
People need a sense of how distributions work before they can make sense of a histogram. Here's how I (try to) make these misunderstood charts easier to read.
Mean, median, and mode. These are the first things you learn about in…
The histogram is one of my favorite basic chart types, because it lets…
The chart type often goes overlooked because people don't understand them. Maybe this will help.
Single data points from a large dataset can make it more relatable, but those individual numbers don't mean much without something to compare to. That's where distributions come in.
The birthday effect is a statistical anomaly that shows higher likelihood of death…
See how your college's selectivity ranks against the rest.
Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down.
Tom Brady, the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is 45 years old,…
We spend a lot of time working. It seems worth thinking about how we feel during all those hours.
A dollar might not buy you as much in one state as it does in the other.
The election is coming. FiveThirtyEight just launched their forecast with a look at…
We’ve been hearing a lot about national unemployment rate, but it’s not uniformly…
When Americans had sex, moved in with someone, and so on. Often not average. Far from normal.
We keep getting bigger. Watch overweight and obesity rates move up over several decades.
On average, we use less energy as we age, and so we should eat less. We don’t always adjust soon enough though.
Articles about stay-at-home dads and parents with even work loads might make it seem like dads are putting in a lot of hours in the household these days. Are they? How do they compare to moms' work hours?
The individual data points of life are much less predictable than the average. Here's a simulation that shows you how much time is left on the clock.
The third installment of Pixar’s Toy Story is making a killing at the…
