The space between the data and the baseline is filled with a color or a pattern, usually emphasizing counts or percentages for a single variable.
R provides functions for basic shapes, but you can also draw your own for maximum fun.
The discussions this week felt familiar. Probably because we've seen this many times, since the beginning of charts themselves.
You could use a package, but then you couldn't customize every single element, and where's the fun in that?
Show current evolution against expected historical variability and add one or more series that could account for the difference.
There are many ways to show parts of a whole. Here are quick one-liners for the more common ones.
Stacked area charts let you see categorical data over time. Interaction allows you to focus on specific categories without losing sight of the big picture.
Some states count quickly, whereas others can take days. For NYT, Alicia Parlapiano…
About 4% of registered light-duty vehicles in the United States are either electric,…
Breaking it down to the small steps and choices with data, code, and editing that lead to a finished chart.
One-third of households are rented and the other two-thirds are owned or in the process. However, the difference between renting and owning changes with age.
A lot of immigration talk in the U.S. focuses on Mexico, but immigrants…
For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura…
To capture solar energy for use in the evening, batteries have grown in…
For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing…
For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area…
In 2020, our everyday routines shifted dramatically, but over the past few years, it's felt like things are getting back to where they were. How back are we?
In the 1950s, less than 10% of families with children were single-parent. In 2022, among families with children, 31% were single-parent — more than three times as common.
It’s been raining a lot here in California, which is helpful, because most…
There’s been a lot of rain in California, which has been good to…
I hear it all the time from chart purists. “I love the streamgraph!”…
Annie Fu, Walt Hickey, and Shayanne Gal, for Insider, show the disproportionately aging…
Christopher Flavelle, for The New York Times, reported on the lack of support…
