The old standby. The classic. The bar height or length represents data. The baseline starts at zero.
Marimekko charts, or mosaic plots, allow you to compare categories over two quantitative variables.
This past month an old chart type poked its head out from behind the trees and I'm here for it.
Show current evolution against expected historical variability and add one or more series that could account for the difference.
Welcome to a new segment where I try to put myself in the shoes of someone who made a bad chart and try to make it better.
The dataisbeautiful subreddit announced a moratorium on the ever popular bar chart race. The frequency of submissions that used the method got out of hand and spam made it all the less savory. Still, the method holds value.
There's a new hotness in chart town. It's a bar chart. But it moves to show rankings over time.
Meaningfulness scores from the American Time Use Survey provide a hint of what we value.
The National Survey of Family Growth, run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, asks participants about their birth and relationship history.
I wondered how common it is for someone to get a divorce. While I’ve touched on the topic before, I’ve never calculated it directly, so I gave it a go.
Oftentimes what we're doing isn't so important as who we're spending our time with.
In high school, we spend most of our days with friends and immediate family. But then we get jobs, start a family, retire, and there's a shift in who we spend our days with.
Here's the breakdown by age for American adults in 2021, based on data from the Pew Research Center.
Higher income usually means more childcare, and lower income usually means less.
For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Jackie Gu look at the current state of…
For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia, Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-Katz show the…
The internet was once this fun place where people had goofy debates about…
We all have our routines, but from person-to-person, the daily schedule changes a lot depending on your responsibilities.
Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections…
For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region…
With professional basketball, we often hear about carry jobs. There’s one star player…
Elian Peltier and Josh Holder for The New York Times highlight the vaccination…
Find out which jobs most often pair together among married couples.
