Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
When looking into getting a pet, it’s important to consider life expectancy. You probably don’t want to accidentally sign up for a twenty-year commitment with an impulse adoption at the pet store.
States aren’t uniformly young and old. Well, other than Maine. This is the breakdown by age group and regions.
In 2020, our everyday routines shifted dramatically, but over the past few years, it’s felt like things are getting back to where they were. How back are we?
Use this chart to see how many times over you’ll pay over the original loan amount, given the annual rate and the number of years of paying.
Among households in the United States, 68% are owned and 32% are rented, based on estimates from the American Community Survey in 2021. That breakdown isn’t uniform across the country though.
These are the states that eat dinner the earliest and latest, along with everyone else in between.
From the teenage years to college to adulthood through retirement, sleep is all over the place at first but then converges towards consistency.
The individual data points of life are much less predictable than the average. Here’s a simulation that shows you how much time is left on the clock.
Using the past couple of years of data from the American Time Use Survey, I simulated a working day for men and women to see how schedules differ. Watch it play out in this animation.
Many lists of maps promise to change the way you see the world, but this one actually does.
Maybe you’re starting to run low. Here’s how much you’ll need when you go to restock.
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.
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.
