Deaths by drug overdose in the United States increased sharply over the past…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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Rise in drug overdose deaths, led by fentanyl
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Political search interest in 2024
In a follow-up to the 2020 project, Moritz Stefaner and Google Trends show…
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Jimmy Carter’s longevity compared to other U.S. presidents
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, turned 100 years old.…
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Political leanings of first and last names
For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner analyzed names and…
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Falling cost of lab-grown diamonds
Natural diamonds require a lot of pressure and time, and then someone has…
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Weight of cars and fatalities
The Economist examines car weight and fatalities in car crashes. In two-vehicle collisions,…
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Internationalization of K-Pop
K-pop grew mainstream-popular in countries outside South Korea over the past few years.…
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Air Quality Stripes
In a riff on Climate Stripes, which shows global temperature change as a…
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Scammed out of life savings, a line chart
Annette Manes, a retired widow and single mother who saved by spending little,…
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Olympic medal tracker variations
As the 2024 Summer Olympics wrap up, medal trackers will fade from homepages…
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Two kinds of bar charts
Michael Correll describes two kinds of bar charts in the world. The first…
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Cryptocurrency-funded politics
Those who run cryptocurrency companies have much to gain from policies that favor…
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Where immigrants in the U.S. came from
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants…
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Famine prevalence in different countries
Reuters explores famine around the world through the lens of starving children in…
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Conservatives lose UK election by a lot
For the New York Times, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby show how the…
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Age differences between world leaders and the populations they serve
The ages of American presidential candidates are old when compared to the ages…
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Trendy baby name sounds
For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura…
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Heat tracker for the U.S.
It’s abnormally hot in a large portion of the United States, and it’s…