Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
An ongoing series about looking at the everyday through the eyes of data and charts.
Reviving the currently defunct Census-produced publication with current data.
Not everything has to be visualized. I do it anyway.
The ever so popular Walmart growth map gets an update, and yes, it still looks like a wildfire. Sam’s Club follows soon after, although not nearly as vigorously.
Data is an abstraction, and it’s impossible to encapsulate everything it represents in real life. So there is uncertainty. Here are ways to visualize the uncertainty.
I compared time use for those with children under 18 against those without. Here’s where the minutes go.
It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.
Researchers asked 10,000 participants to list ten things that recently made them happy. I counted and connected the dots.
For various occupations, the difference between the person who makes the most and the one who makes the least can be significant.
Salaries vary by occupation. These charts show the spread.
The seven-year itch suggests that people grow dissatisfied with marriage …
See how common activities were for a given time of day, age, and sex.
People stay single longer, marry later, divorce less, and widow older.
A practical resource for beginners who want to visualize data for humans.
