Statistical Visualization
Finding patterns, distributions, and anomalies.
Emptied reservoirs in California
Winter is over and it’s shorts weather these days in California. This is…
Wealth inequality explained in charts
Wealth inequality is a real thing that is complex and a result of…
Speedy crossword solvers
Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight covered this year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the…
Married couple tax bonuses and penalties
Using calculations by Nick Kasprak from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities…
Color use in paintings, by year
Martin Bellander saw some projects that extracted color from movie posters and trailers,…
Gender gaps around the world
Ri Liu provides an exploratory view of gender gaps around the world through…
3-D chart for economy’s future
People like to poke fun at 3-D charts, mostly because they don’t work…
Texas hold ’em win probabilities
Software engineer Chris Beaumont visualized the strength of opponent hands in Texas hold…
Gambler’s perspective on sports team win probabilities
Michael Beuoy’s win probability model plotted on FiveThirtyEight starts all NBA teams at…
Every NBA team’s chances of winning, by game minute
Michael Beuoy made a win probability model for NBA teams and games, based…
Identifying cheaters in test results, a simple method
Jonathan Dushoff had issues with students in his population biology class cheating on…
Top 1% earners versus bottom 90%
Quoctrung Bui for Planet Money plotted average income for the top one percent…
Human brain size compared to animals’
Mosaic provides a simple comparison of brain size in a handful of animals…
Professor ratings by gender and discipline
Based on about 14 million reviews on RateMyProfessor, this tool by Ben Schmidt…
Shrinking middle class
The Upshot has a detailed, chart-filled summary of the shrinking middle class, categorized…
