Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
Here’s the current landscape of supermarket parent companies and their subsidiaries — national chains, regional, local, co-ops, specialty, ethnic, and discount.
About half of people have private health insurance through an employer. However, the other half get their insurance from elsewhere or through a combination of sources.
One of the highlights of Thanksgiving in the United States is the food, as seen through the lens of Google Trends.
A timeline showing the age difference between Mike Tyson and his opponents, over his career that started in 1985.
We can see the changing scales of who works and for how long through employment rates by age and time.
For no particular reason on this particular day, here are spinners to try your hand at random everyday things with even odds. Good luck.
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I’m terrible at names, but maybe data can help. Put in your sex, the decade when you were born, and start putting in your name. I’ll try to guess before you’re done.
Most of the major pizza chains are within a 5-mile …
We use some names mostly for boys and some mostly for girls, but then there is a small percentage that, over time, switched from one gender to another. Which names made the biggest switch?
I compared time use for those with children under 18 against those without. Here’s where the minutes go.
We almost always look at data through a screen. It’s quick and good for exploration. So is there value in making data physical? I played around with a 3-D printer to find out.
It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.
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.
