Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
An ongoing series about looking at the everyday through the eyes of data and charts.
Reviving the currently defunct Census-produced publication with current data.
Not everything has to be visualized. I do it anyway.
A closer look at the age old question of where there are more bars than grocery stores, and vice versa.
Most of the major pizza chains are within a 5-mile …
The data goes back to 1960 and up to the most current estimates for 2009. Each line represents a country.
We know spending changes when you have more money. Here’s by how much.
Researchers asked 10,000 participants to list ten things that recently made them happy. I counted and connected the dots.
With absolute certainty, you will die. When will it happen? That is a trickier question. But we can run simulations to explore the possibilities.
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
See how many people are in various work cohorts, given education, annual income, weekly hours, and commute time.
Here’s the current landscape of supermarket parent companies and their subsidiaries — national chains, regional, local, co-ops, specialty, ethnic, and discount.
A practical resource for beginners who want to visualize data for humans.
