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Government revenue and spending diagram
In case you’re wondering about government spending and budgets, USAFacts has a Sankey diagram that shows the money that came in during 2024 and how the revenue was distributed. According to data from...
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Natural System of Colours, a recreation of 18th century color wheels
In 1766, Moses Harris published The Natural System of Colours to demonstrate that one could create the full spectrum of colors by combining three primitives: red, yellow, and blue. As a design...
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Shifts in German election
German voters shifted away from the left in their general election this past Sunday. Christian Democrats (center right) won the most seats and Alternative for Germany (far right) came in second. The...
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Growing gender gap in ideology
For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch shows the gap between men and women in political ideology with a set of difference charts (paywalled). It was typical for people in the same age cohort to follow...
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Estimating the ‘laziness’ of federal workers
Some might have you believe that federal employees don’t put in the work. For the Washington Post’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam shows data that suggests otherwise. In case you’re unfamiliar with...
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Rail transit and population density
In some cities, a large percentage of the population has access to public transit, whereas in others, access is limited. Aniket Kali and Jeff Allen mapped rail transit on population density and then...
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Visualizing all the books in the world
To show a catalog of almost 100 million books in one view, phiresky mapped them based on International Standard Book Numbers, or ISBNs, with an interactive visualization. Large blocks of 10k to 100...
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Wikipedia as a walkable, virtual museum
Imagine everything on Wikipedia in an infinite museum of galleries. That’s what Maya Claire did, and you can walk through the museum via your desktop computer or in virtual reality. The museum is...
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Network of statistical distributions
The network of 76 probability distributions show how they are connected: Solid lines represent special cases and transformations from one distribution to another. Dashed arrows are used for asymptotic...
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Reality of organ transplant waiting lists
One might hope that people on a waiting list for an organ transplant were treated from top to bottom, individual by individual. It’s not that simple though. For The New York Times, Brian M. Rosenthal,...
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House colors as an indicator for gentrification
It appears that gray and neutral tones on houses are a sign of gentrification in cities. To demonstrate, for the Washington Post, Marissa Lang and John Harden analyzed D.C. house images from Google...
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Imports that could be taxed
We’ve mostly heard about tariffs as they apply further down the supply chain and onto the shelves of your local retailer. For Reuters, Sarah Slobin and Howard Schneider show how tariffs can apply to...
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Products affected by tariffs in the U.S.
Luis Melgar and Rachel Lerman, for the Washington Post, highlight the value of goods from Mexico, Canada, and China. While it’s hard to say how much tariffs will affect consumers directly, it seems...
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Imported parts on a Chevrolet Silverado
To demonstrate how tariffs can impact American products, Financial Times focuses on the parts and manufacturing of a Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck (paywalled). Over half of the 673,000 Silverados...
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Ambiguity in what counts as American-made vehicles
Speaking of imported vehicle parts, June Kim and Neal Boudette, for The New York Times, highlight how some vehicles are technically American-made but use mostly imported parts and others are...
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$38b of government money that funded Musk companies
Elon Musk has been critical of government spending, as he and DOGE fire federal employees and post questionable savings numbers. However, Musk’s own companies have benefited greatly from government...
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Charted history of the baby boom
For Our World in Data, Saloni Dattani and Lucas Rodés-Guirao analyzed the various factors that led to the baby boom, typically marked by the period following World War II. As usual, it’s not that...
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Less sense of belonging, in middle school
Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, highlights education research on the awkwardness of middle school (or junior high as they used to call it (or intermediate where I’m from)). What they found across the...
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Everyday life changes after Covid
In almost every dataset about life and people that stretches back past March 2020, you can find the blip when Covid changed how we live. Aatish Bhatia and Irineo Cabreros, for NYT’s the Upshot, used a...
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Fewer honking complaints after congestion pricing
This might come as a surprise to some, but since congestion pricing in Manhattan began, the number of complaints about honking declined. For The City, Jose Martinez and Mia Hollie looked at the 311...
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