Statistical Visualization

Movies and television shows often reflect cultural trends of the time they are…

In high school health class, where I learned about contraceptives and the dangers…

In another use of data from the American Time Use Survey, Planet Money…

Daily life in cities tends to differ from daily life in small towns,…

An additional hour of sleep can make a huge difference in how you…

Yelp released an amusing tool that lets you see how the use of…

LeBron James decided to head back to Cleveland, so naturally the odds that…

Packing underwear for a short trip is easy. You just pack a pair…

For small-ish amounts of hierarchical data, most JavaScript libraries can handle the load.…

I’m pretty sure xkcd is the only one who gets away with showing…

A statistical model, from Yair Ghitza of Catalist and Andrew Gelman of Columbia…

Based on data compiled from a combination of military records, Defense Department records,…

Based on estimates from the National Center for Education Statistics, Randy Olson plotted…

The Upshot posted an interesting chart that shows changing employment rate by state.…

For a graduate project, Michael Barry and Brian Card explored the Boston subway…

Football players are getting bigger. Noah Veltman, a developer for the WNYC Data…

North by Northwestern looked closer at degrees awarded by their university over the…

Some letters in the English language appear more often in the beginning of…