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.
Many charts don’t tell the truth. This is a simple guide to spotting them.
It was reported that 1 in 6 millennials have at least $100,000 saved. Is this right? It seems high. I looked at the data to find out and then at all of the age groups.
“Let the data speak” they say. But what happens when the data rambles on and on?
Median income only tells you where the middle is. The distributions of income are a lot more interesting.
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?
Researchers asked 10,000 participants to list ten things that recently made them happy. I counted and connected the dots.
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.
Some jobs tend towards higher divorce rates and some lower.
Some occupations have more turnover than others. See how it varies for your occupation and others.
A practical resource for beginners who want to visualize data for humans.
