Borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
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.
How much you sleep each night matters, but more importantly, it’s about the quality and if you feel rested when you wake up.
Asian workers are more than three times more likely to be physicians. What other jobs jump out? What’s it like for other races and ethnicity?
How does the modern Kansas City Chiefs compare to teams who won previous Super Bowls over the past 58 years?
Education paths start to diverge towards the end of high school and after.
There are a lot of great craft breweries in the United States, but there is only so much time. This is the computed best way to get to the top rated breweries and how to maximize the beer tasting experience. Every journey begins with a single sip.
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?
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.
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.
So far we’ve seen when you will die and how other people tend to die. Now let’s put the two together to see how and when you will die, given your sex, race, and age.
There are rules—usually for specific chart types meant to be read in a specific way—that you shouldn’t break. When they are, everyone loses. This is that small handful.
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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.