Projects

Since 1972, the General Social Survey has asked people about their happiness. It never changed much — until 2020 happened.

Calculating how much money a kid gets after exchanging all twenty baby teeth.

A dollar might not buy you as much in one state as it does in the other.

I was curious who played for a single team over their entire career, who skipped around, and how the patterns changed over the decades.

We already looked at minimum wage over time, but when it comes to geography and income, you also have to consider the cost of living for a fair comparison.

Minimum wage has increased over the years, but by how much depends on where you live.

I compared spending in 1996 against the most recent spending estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Unemployment has hit some industries more than others. Here's how the most recent estimates compare against last year's.

It seems like there’s been more player movement than usual over the years. Didn’t players used to play on a single team for the entirety of their careers?

I roasted a turkey. There were a lot of leftovers. But my mom taught me to never waste.

When you have a big family, it's a challenge to figure out how everyone is related. So here are some charts to help you figure it out.

Someone mentioned that $400,000+ per year was commonplace in American households. That seemed like an odd comment.

With wildfires burning in the western United States, smoke fills the air. This is an animation of the air quality during the past couple of months.

The wind was blowing smoke and ash from wildfires further up north from where I live. The sky turned an eerie orange. I wondered about past fires and made the chart below.