While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…
Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
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All of Mister Rogers’ cardigan colors
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Most popular colors used by most popular sites
Paul Hebert was curious about the colors used on the web’s larger sites,…
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YouTube plays for ‘It’s Gonna Be May’
It’s that time of year again. Turn up the volume and blast It’s…
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NFL draft performance vs. expectations
Reuben Fischer-Baum for The Washington Post looks at professional football expectations given their…
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Stephen Curry for MVP, because he makes his teammates better the most
The choice for Most Valuable Player in the NBA is only minimally about…
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Why momentum works
Gabriel Goh models momentum over at the new machine learning journal Distill. The…
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A century of facial hair styles
Facial hair styles change with the years. One year it might be more…
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Pianist eye tracking
What does a pianist look at while playing? Put a pair of eye…
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Looking for more affordable homes and better schools in the suburbs
Families often move out of the city to the suburbs for more affordable…
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Trump approval ratings compared to past presidents
Using multiple polls as their source data, FiveThirtyEight is tracking approval and disapproval…
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Graphs from 1900 that depict a snapshot of African American life
In 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois and his students drew a series…
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Demographics for immigrants from banned countries
As I’m sure you know, the current administration banned immigrants from seven countries…
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Typeface interweaves words and graphs
Datalegreya is a new typeface by Fig that lets you intertwine a graph…
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Showing uncertainty during the live election forecast
During the election, The New York Times showed a live gauge to show…
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Randomness of scientific impact
A group of researchers wondered if there was a trend or predictability for…
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Ad spending for Clinton and Trump
Adam Pearce for the New York Times charted ad spending for Clinton and…
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All the Harry Potter spells, when they were used
I often stare far into the distance and ponder world’s greatest questions —…
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Doctors’ political leanings
Based on data from researchers at Yale, the Upshot charts party registration by…