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.
With absolute certainty, you will die. When will it happen? That is a trickier question. But we can run simulations to explore the possibilities.
Watch the regional changes across the country from 1990 to 2016.
What are the ingredients that make each cuisine? I looked at 40,000 recipes spanning 20 cuisines and 6,714 ingredients to see what makes food taste different.
Many lists of maps promise to change the way you see the world, but this one actually does.
I’m terrible at names, but maybe data can help. Put in your sex, the decade when you were born, and start putting in your name. I’ll try to guess before you’re done.
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.
What candies usually land in the throwaway pile?
Results from the Survey of Consumer Finances were recently released, which means it is time for a rendition of seeing who has a higher net worth than you.
Older people are working later in life and younger people are not entering the labor force as early.
A landscape of year-over-year price changes, without the cherrypicking.
A practical resource for beginners who want to visualize data for humans.