Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
How long will chicken reign supreme? Who wins between lemon and lime? Is nonfat ice cream really ice cream? Does grapefruit ever make a comeback? Find out in these charts.
Find out which jobs most often pair together among married couples.
Since no one has figured out how to defeat time, age generations come and go. This chart shows the generational breakdowns since 1920.
About 48% of the U.S. population aged 15 and older is married. I was curious if there were regional variations, so I mapped it.
Divorce rates are tied to job security, age, and occupation, so it should make sense that we see a pattern when we plot divorce rates against income.
The Census Bureau released state population counts for 2020. Here’s how each state gained and lost population and seats.
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.
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.
Here are my favorites for the year.
I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.
With wildfires burning in the western United States, smoke fills the air. This is an animation of the air quality during the past couple of months.
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?
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.
