Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
How little we save for retirement
Saving for retirement is a slow process with an end goal that can…
Words used in cannabis business names
Daniel Wolfe for The Washington Post looked at the similar word choices across…
India estimated to pass China in population
Based on the United Nations’ world population report, it is estimated that India’s…
Explorable explanation for signal detection theory
When you have a lot of noisy data, it can be helpful to…
Declining vacation time from work
Despite available vacation days, it appears that American workers are taking less and…
Congress still getting older
For FiveThirtyEight, Geoffrey Skelley digs into the ongoing trend:
What’s behind these increasingly…
Changing Fed projections
This clever chart by Lazaro Gamio shows changing interest rates set by the…
UC admission rates for California public and private high schools
For the San Francisco Chronicle, Nami Sumida shows admission rates at University of…
Online dating, who filters out what
With online dating apps, you’re able to filter out potential matches based on…
Past and present California drought severity
It’s been raining a lot here in California, which is helpful, because most…
Excess Kia and Hyundai car thefts
In the middle of 2022, a popular video on TikTok, since taken down,…
Increasing range of electric vehicles
Hannah Ritchie compared electric vehicle range over the years:
The median range of…
100 visualizations from a single dataset with 6 data points
The structure of a dataset can help you pick a visualization method or…
LeBron James’ longevity
Okay, one more LeBron James thing, mostly because I like seeing different looks…
Cumulative points scored by LeBron James and other top scorers
Never fear, Sopan Deb, K.K. Rebecca Lai, and Eve Washington, for The New…
Sankey diagrams to show change in opinion
For Bloomberg, Joe Mayes, Andre Tartar, and Demetrios Pogkas show shifts in public…
