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.
Before you dive into the advanced stuff – like just about everything in your life – you have to learn the fundamentals before you know when you can break the rules.
Many charts don’t tell the truth. This is a simple guide to spotting them.
It was reported that 1 in 6 millennials have at least $100,000 saved. Is this right? It seems high. I looked at the data to find out and then at all of the age groups.
The meaning of “middle-income” changes a lot depending on where you live and your household size.
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.
It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.
Results from the Survey of Consumer Finances were recently released, which means it is time for a rendition of seeing who has a higher net worth than you.
Older people are working later in life and younger people are not entering the labor force as early.
A landscape of year-over-year price changes, without the cherrypicking.
Some jobs tend towards higher divorce rates and some lower.
A practical resource for beginners who want to visualize data for humans.
