The old standby. The classic. The bar height or length represents data. The baseline starts at zero.
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.
Many charts don't tell the truth. This is a simple guide to spotting them.
As you might expect, early voting volume is high across the country. In…
From Dan Goodspeed, the bar chart race is back. The length of the…
FiveThirtyEight publishes win probabilities for NBA games throughout the season. During the playoffs,…
Google released a search trends dataset earlier this month. Using this dataset, Adam…
When this all started, Covid-19 was impacting large cities at a much higher…
With mail-in ballots looking to be more common than ever this year, NYT’s…
There's a 6 percent figure from the CDC that could be easily misinterpreted. Here's what it means.
For NYT’s The Upshot, Tim Wallace and Krishna Karra looked at how the…
For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek charted the gaps between white and black mortality…
With Joe Biden calling for 100% clean electricity, John Muyskens and Juliet Eilperin…
Some industries are more compatible with remote work than others. Jonathan I. Dingel…
Is bread-making still a thing, or is that so two weeks ago? If…
I'm terrible at names, but maybe data can help. Put in your sex, the decade when you were born, and start putting in your name. I'll try to guess before you're done.
It was reported that 1 in 6 millennials have at least $100,000 saved. Is this right? It seems high. I looked at the data to find out and then at all of the age groups.
What percentage of households fall into lower-, middle-, and upper-income levels when you adjust for household size?
How do couples meet now and how has it changed over the years? Watch the rankings play out over six decades.
