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.
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…
For The Washington Post, Ashlyn Still and Ted Mellnik show the shifts in…
What is old? When it comes to subjects like health care and retirement, we often think of old in fixed terms. But as people live longer, it's worth changing the definition.
A $600 per week benefit expires for the unemployed at the end of…
People tend to have more money saved up over time, but range and variation also grow, and often it’s not enough.
The day-to-day changes a lot when you have kids. However, it seems to change more for women than it does for men.
For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…
The meaning of "middle-income" changes a lot depending on where you live and your household size.
Bloomberg charted voter turnout for the just past midterm elections, comparing 2018 against…
Ben Schmidt uses deep scatterplots to visualize millions of data points. It’s a…
What are the ingredients that make each cuisine? I looked at 40,000 recipes spanning 20 cuisines and 6,714 ingredients to see what makes food taste different.
This fake follower piece by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris, and…
I’m pretty sure this is all that most people want to know. The…
