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.
We know when people usually get married. We know who never marries. Finally, it’s time to look at the other side: divorce and remarriage.
In celebration of their 100-year anniversary, the American Film Institute …
No need to restrict ourselves to the most common types. There are thousands. Let’s look at all of them.
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.
“Let the data speak” they say. But what happens when the data rambles on and on?
Median income only tells you where the middle is. The distributions of income are a lot more interesting.
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.
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.
A practical resource for beginners who want to visualize data for humans.