Data Underload

People worry about data overload. Fooey. Charts and musings by Nathan Yau.

A Day in the Life: Women and Men

Using the past couple of years of data from the American Time Use Survey, I simulated a working day for men and women to see how schedules differ. Watch it play out in this animation.

Where Your Job is Most Popular

Some jobs are common nationwide, because they are needed everywhere. Others are more specific to geography. See where job falls on the spectrum.

Most Uniquely Popular Job in Each State

These are the jobs in each state that are most specific to the place.

Billions at the Franchise Box Office

There's big money in wizarding worlds, galaxies far away, and various time-shifted universes. Let's take a stroll through the billions of dollars earned by franchises over the years.

EGOT Winner Timelines

Only 15 people have done it, since you know, it's not really easy to do. Here's how and when they did it.

Brewery Road Trip, Optimized With Genetic Algorithm

Visit the best American breweries of 2018, based on RateBeer rankings, while minimizing travel time and distance.

Map of Best Breweries in America, 2018

RateBeer puts out a list every year for top 100 breweries in the world. Here are the states that cracked the list.

How Many Kids We Have and When We Have Them

Many parents stop at two kids. Most are done by three. Still, everyone has their own timelines. Here are 1,000 of them.

After Marriage, How Long People Wait to Have Kids

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

Baby-Making Age

We looked at prime dating age and when people usually marry. Now it's time for the next step in the circle of life.

Goodbye, Mid-Range Shot

There's a space on the basketball court called "mid-range." It's actually not off-limits. In fact, people used to shoot these so-called "mid-range" shots.

Single-Income Occupations

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

Peak Non-Creepy Dating Pool

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.

Growth of Subreddits

As of September 2018, there were 892 million comments for the year so far, spread out over 355,939 subreddits. Here's how it got to this point, and "what the internet has been talking about" during the past 12 years.

Shifting Causes of Death

The most common causes of death changed over the years. They vary across sex and age group. This animation shows the details of these changes.