A symbol is used for each unit to place emphasis on individuals or objects.
Show individual data points by splitting bars into smaller cells.
Make the unit chart less abstract with icons that represent the data, or use this in place of a bar chart.
Add visual weight by using individual items to show counts.
Someone mentioned that $400,000+ per year was commonplace in American households. That seemed like an odd comment.
NPR estimated how many people have experienced unhealthy air this year, largely 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.
From 1928, the year of the first Academy Awards, to 2019, there have been 455 nominations for Best Director. Of those, 18 of them went to non-white men.
Outside of Australia, it can be a challenge to get a grasp of…
Here are the estimates from the Current Population Survey for the most recent time segment between 2017 and 2018.
As I watched Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai field questions from the House Judiciary…
While a drink a day might increase your risk of experiencing an alcohol-related condition, the change is low in absolute numbers.
After living expenses, where does the money go, and how does it change when you have more cash available?
Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…
There is a fixed number of minutes during the day. Where do parents usually draw the time from?
This is what you get when you add up all the days the average American adult spends sleeping, eating, commuting, and doing other activities.
So far we've seen when you will die and how other people tend to die. Now let's put the two together to see how and when you will die, given your sex, race, and age.
As I’m sure you know, Sony has been having all sorts of data…
