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Graphics by Nathan Yau, borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.

But not every group's median income increased by the same amount.

Visualization is complex, but if I were to break it down simply, I’d…

R.I.P.…

Americans get most of their alcohol from beer, but it's not like that everywhere.

Raising kids is hard to explain. I'll try anyways. With some charts.

Keep track of the 214 days out of the year that are a national food or drink days.

Here's how common each household type is and was — and how the makeup compares to a few decades ago.

You're going to see probability values mentioned a lot these next few months. Many people will misinterpret. But not you.

Nuclear is still the most common, but there are millions of households in the United States with a different family structure.

Most people have one or two drinks on average, but some consume much more.

For various occupations, the difference between the person who makes the most and the one who makes the least can be significant.

Two decades out from the first statewide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, here's who still smokes.

As of May 2016, there were 64,432 licensed firearms dealers and pawnbrokers, which got me wondering how that compares to other businesses.

We keep getting bigger. Watch overweight and obesity rates move up over several decades.

Here are some tips to get you started, based on my own experiences with R, and more recently, the JavaScript library d3.js.