Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
Sleepy time varies as responsibilities shift.
Two-thirds of adults get at least 7 hours of sleep. I am not in that two-thirds.
Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down.
Find out when it’s your time for the glasses and hearing aid. Time is undefeated.
How common are wide age gaps between spouses? These are the age differences through the lens of the 2022 five-year American Community Survey.
There are thousands of McDonald’s locations, but there are still more golf courses in the United States. This seems surprising, but some maps make it clear.
We almost always look at data through a screen. It’s quick and good for exploration. So is there value in making data physical? I played around with a 3-D printer to find out.
The data goes back to 1960 and up to the most current estimates for 2009. Each line represents a country.
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.
There are many exercise apps that allow you to keep …
This is a 24-hour snapshot for a day in the life of Americans.
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.
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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.