Climate normals mapped over time

Create better population pyramids that allow for improved comparisons between sexes and populations.

Also known as trellis charts, lattice chart, or whatever you want to call them, the technique lets you compare several categories in one view.

Let the data speak for itself they say. That doesn’t work a lot of the time, and when that happens, you need to explain.

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.

What is old? When it comes to subjects like health care and retirement, we often think of old in fixed terms. But as people live longer, it’s worth changing the definition.

Based on the “half-your-age-plus-seven” rule, the range of people you can date expands with age. Combine that with population counts and demographics, and you can find when your non-creepy dating pool peaks.

There are many ways to die. Cancer. Infection. Mental. External. This is how different groups of people died over the past 10 years, visualized by age.

We use some names mostly for boys and some mostly for girls, but then there is a small percentage that, over time, switched from one gender to another. Which names made the biggest switch?