xkcd: Dominant players in chess and basketball

July 9, 2014

Statistical Visualization / chess, sports, xkcd

I’m pretty sure xkcd is the only one who gets away with showing player ratings for both basketball and chess players in the same frame, without the y-axis labels. And somehow it seems logical.

Here’s how common each household type is and was — and how the makeup compares to a few decades ago.

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage. Sometimes.

A simulation to estimate how long until you are seated at a restaurant.

It’s in the details of 100,000 moments. I analyzed the crowd-sourced corpus to see what brought the most smiles.