Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
We all have our routines, but from person-to-person, the daily schedule changes a lot depending on your responsibilities.
This chart shows the shifts since 1960.
Here’s how the distribution of genres has changed since 1945 up to present.
Most television shows don’t get past the first season, but there are some that manage to stick around. These are the 175 longest running shows on IMDb that have ratings.
Whether it’s because of experience, physical ability, or education level, some jobs tend towards a certain age of worker more than others.
Using an oldie but goodie visualization format to look at time use between different groups.
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.
We know spending changes when you have more money. Here’s by how much.
I almost didn’t make a best-of list this year, but …
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.
Minimum wage has increased over the years, but by how much depends on where you live.
Based on the “half-your-age-plus-seven” rule, the range of people you can date expands with age. Combine that with population counts and demographics, and you can find when your non-creepy dating pool peaks.
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.
