Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
No need to restrict ourselves to the most common types. There are thousands. Let’s look at all of them.
Maybe your best possible life is ahead of you.
Most people have a job and receive wages in return, but that starts to change when you get into the higher income groups.
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.
I call myself a statistician, because, well, I’m a statistics graduate student. However, the most important things I’ve learned are less formal, but have proven extremely useful when working/playing with data.
I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but …
It was a rough year, which brought about a lot of good work. Here are my favorite data visualization projects of the year.
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.
You’ve probably heard the lines about how “40 is the new 30” or “30 is the new 20.” What is this based on? I tried to solve the problem using life expectancy data. Your age is the new age.
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.
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.
