A generalized form of the scatter plot, the dots can be placed in various coordinate systems.
It looks like a tornado. It's messy. It's circular. It almost looks intentionally confusing. But how bad is it really?
Easily compare multiple categories and spot differences between two or more series.
For when you want to show the occurrence of events over time.
It's easy to draw dots. The challenge is to make them meaningful and readable.
The combination of a time series chart and a scatter plot lets you compare two variables along with temporal changes.
Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area…
We had to do more from home. Here's how much everything shifted by total minutes in a day.
NYT’s The Upshot analyzed spin rate on pitches before and after enforcing a…
It’s been hot in the Pacific Northwest the past few days. NYT’s The…
Susie Neilson for the San Francisco Chronicle compared the marriage of professions in…
We often hear about the Asian American community as one big group of…
Divorce rates are tied to job security, age, and occupation, so it should make sense that we see a pattern when we plot divorce rates against income.
The Census Bureau released state population counts for 2020. Here's how each state gained and lost population and seats.
Since 1972, the General Social Survey has asked people about their happiness. It never changed much — until 2020 happened.
With the restrictions of the pandemic, you might expect an unusually big wave…
Danielle Ivory, Lauren Leatherby and Robert Gebeloff for The New York looked at…
As the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pauses in the United States, Philip Bump…
We already looked at minimum wage over time, but when it comes to geography and income, you also have to consider the cost of living for a fair comparison.
For Reuters, Julia Janicki and Simon Scarr, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, show…
Based on estimates from the MIT Trancik Lab, The New York Times plotted…
The University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government defined an index to track…
