Bar Chart

The old standby. The classic. The bar height or length represents data. The baseline starts at zero.

How Much Time We Spend Alone and With Others

Oftentimes what we're doing isn't so important as who we're spending our time with.

Who We Spend Time with as We Get Older

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.

Social Media Usage by Age

Here's the breakdown by age for American adults in 2021, based on data from the Pew Research Center.

Who Takes Care of the Kids, By Household Income

Higher income usually means more childcare, and lower income usually means less.

Fashion industry’s environmental impact

For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Jackie Gu look at the current state of…

Distribution of snowfall estimates to show uncertainty

For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia, Josh Katz and Margot Sanger-Katz show the…

Settling all the internet debates in one go with a bunch of polling

The internet was once this fun place where people had goofy debates about…

Most Common Daily Routines

We all have our routines, but from person-to-person, the daily schedule changes a lot depending on your responsibilities.

Job growth was underestimated

Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections…

Drought extent by region

For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region…

NBA carry jobs

With professional basketball, we often hear about carry jobs. There’s one star player…

Decline of U.S. vaccination rate compared against Europe’s

Elian Peltier and Josh Holder for The New York Times highlight the vaccination…

Jobs that Marry Together the Most

Find out which jobs most often pair together among married couples.

Coming and Going Age Generations

Since no one has figured out how to defeat time, age generations come and go. This chart shows the generational breakdowns since 1920.

Varying demographics within the Asian American population

We often hear about the Asian American community as one big group of…

Half of coronavirus deaths were in the winter

You probably knew that coronavirus deaths have been in the several thousands per…

Age generations in the U.S. Senate, over time

With this straightforward unit chart, wcd.fyi shows which generation each Senate member belonged…

Climate change in 2020

It used to be that climate changed seemed like something far off in…

NBA Players Traded, Historical Percentages

It seems like there’s been more player movement than usual over the years. Didn’t players used to play on a single team for the entirety of their careers?

How to Make Marimekko Charts in Excel

Marimekko charts, or mosaic plots, allow you to compare categories over two quantitative variables.