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Change in commute times in major cities
Using GPS data processed by Replica, Lydia DePillis, Emma Goldberg, and Ella Koeze, for The New York Times, show how commutes have changed post-pandemic. The roads in major cities are a little bit less...
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ER visits for Christmas decoration injuries
A lot of Christmas lights went up this past week. I hope you weren’t one of the thousands who ended up in the emergency room. USAFacts shows the ramp up after Thanksgiving and the mini-spikes after....
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Common Millionaire Household
One million dollars is a lot of money, and for most people, it can seem so far out of reach it might as well be impossible. However, a lot of households have at least that in financial assets, which...
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Investor expectations for interest rates compared to reality
This chart by Eric Wallerstein for the Wall Street Journal shows expectations against reality. They often don’t match up. See also: how rate projections change over time. Tags: invest, rate, Wall...
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Rise of Caitlin Clark, scoring machine
Caitlin Clark, a basketball guard for the University of Iowa, has been steadily adding to her point total over the past four years. Clark broke the NCAA record this past week. But as we all know, it’s...
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✚ Misleading or Not? A Chart About How Couples Meet
If a chart is seen by enough people, someone will call it misleading. Many will agree that it is misleading, and therefore, the chart is terrible and the maker is up to no good. This is the law of the...
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When Your Vision and Hearing Decline with Age
If you want to feel like you’re getting old, visit an optometrist and have them tell you that in 6 to 12 months you won’t be able to read things up close and you’ll need bifocals. Here’s when your...
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Rise in prison death rates during the pandemic
The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons: The slowdown in admissions meant that prison systems reduced the number of younger people exposed to COVID, while the older...
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Decade-Long Battle for “Yogurt” vs. “Yoghurt” on Wikipedia
There’s more than one way to spell yogurt, and the common spelling changes depending on where you live. However, the English version of Wikipedia serves people around the world. Which spelling do you...
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Changing Difficulty of Getting Into Your College, Past Two Decades
It’s gotten more difficult to get into top colleges over the years, but most schools have either admitted students at the same rate or increased admission rates since 2001. Using data from the National...
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When Working Gets Harder With Age
Our physical, mental, and emotional abilities change as we get older, and this can affect the kind of work we do. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) asks people if they’ve run into such...
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Scammed out of life savings, a line chart
Annette Manes, a retired widow and single mother who saved by spending little, was scammed out of $1.4 million of her life savings. Bloomberg shows the large deposits and withdrawals through Manes’...
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Weight of cars and fatalities
The Economist examines car weight and fatalities in car crashes. In two-vehicle collisions, while heavier cars tend to mean fewer deaths for those driving them, the opposite is true for the other car...
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✚ Focusing Off Defaults
Default visualization settings are useful when it’s just you analyzing data. You have data questions. You need to make quick charts to get quick data answers, so default settings are purposely generic...
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Falling cost of lab-grown diamonds
Natural diamonds require a lot of pressure and time, and then someone has to mine for them. Lab-grown diamonds can be produced to be nearly indistinguishable from the natural ones, minus the time and...
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When Americans Stop Working
Normal retirement age, also known as full retirement age, is 67 years old for those born in 1960 or later. It’s when you can get full Social Security benefits (assuming they still exist). It’s common...
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