Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
In the 1950s, less than 10% of families with children were single-parent. In 2022, among families with children, 31% were single-parent — more than three times as common.
People are waiting longer to have kids or not having kids at all, which leads to more dual income households with no kids.
These are all the failures since 2001, scaled by amount of assets in 2023 dollars.
Here’s household income by number of earners in the household, based on data from the 2022 Current Population Survey.
The rich continue to get richer, and everyone else either only kind of earns more or stays where they’re at.
Watch the growth strategy behind Target stores, starting with the first location in 1962 in Minnesota.
The meaning of “middle-income” changes a lot depending on where you live and your household size.
Median income only tells you where the middle is. The distributions of income are a lot more interesting.
We’ve seen that we can learn from what people search …
Jobs and pay can vary a lot depending on where you live, based on 2013 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here’s an interactive to look.
With wildfires burning in the western United States, smoke fills the air. This is an animation of the air quality during the past couple of months.
Before you dive into the advanced stuff – like just about everything in your life – you have to learn the fundamentals before you know when you can break the rules.
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.
