Single-Income Occupations

About 18 percent of couple households are single-income. I wanted to know what the earner in these homes usually do.

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Toilet Paper Calculator

Maybe you’re starting to run low. Here’s how much you’ll need when you go to restock.

A Day in the Life of Americans

I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.

Where People Run in Major Cities

There are many exercise apps that allow you to keep …

Counting Happiness and Where it Comes From

Researchers asked 10,000 participants to list ten things that recently made them happy. I counted and connected the dots.