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Pope age comparisons
With the passing of Pope Francis, the Washington Post charted the ages of past popes during their pontificate. Pope Francis was 88 years old, making him the second oldest to Pope Leo XIII in 1903....
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Length of pontificates
Pope Francis’ papacy started in 2013 and lasted 12 years and 39 days. For Axios, Jacque Schrag shows the duration against past pontificates since the 20th century. The rare Gantt chart makes an...
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Charting no-look passes by Nikola Jokic
Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets has been showing up in highlight reels for his no-look passes. For the Ringer, Michael Pina breaks it down as a proxy for basketball IQ. According to Sportradar, this...
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American floor plan from China
Many household items in the United States are almost entirely from China, making it a challenge to imagine a life where Americans buy everything domestically. For the New York Times, Pablo Robles,...
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Deconstructed iPhone to show where the parts are manufactured
iPhone parts are manufactured and assembled by different countries, which makes it tricky to define where an iPhone, the singular product, is made. Financial Times breaks the phone into pieces to show...
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Wine bottles with animals on the label vs. price and quality
You have to pick up a bottle of wine but don’t know what to get. You see a bunch of animals on the labels. Do that bird or amphibian tell you anything about the quality of the wine? For the Pudding,...
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Charts for Trump’s first 100 days
News outlets tend to highlight the first 100 days of a new administration, and they like to show the changes with charts. It gives a feel for a true direction instead of empty claims and where we might...
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Measles vaccine effectiveness
Despite what some say, the measles vaccine saves lives and is not associated with autism. For Our World in Data, Saloni Dattani charts the effectiveness. Side effects, like a mild fever or rash, do...
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Universities that received federal funding for research
Big universities more often make the news, but the freeze in federal funding could affect research across the country. For the New York Times, Andrea Fuller, Zach Levitt, and Isabelle Taft use a...
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ICE detainees shuttled to further away facilities
As more people are detained, they are sent to detention centers in the South and Southwest, despite the distance and cost. Some areas are more likely to deport detainees. From Bloomberg: A Bloomberg...
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Europeans still traveling to the United States
For the New York Times, Josh Holder, Niraj Chokshi, and Samuel Granados use a step chart, with arrivals in 2024 and 2025, to show why the decline in European travel to the U.S. might not be as dramatic...
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All the lawsuits against Sean Combs
The Sean “Diddy” Combs trial started. There have been 78 lawsuits filed against him, and the Washington Post outlined the accusations, lawsuit statuses, and people involved. CW Amid this deluge of...
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Internet Roadtrip, where the community votes where to go at each step
What if you were on a roadtrip and every ten seconds a large group of people decided which way to turn? Internet Roadtrip by Neal Agarwal will show the way. A street view shows where you are, and a map...
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Value of Chinese goods vs. tariffs
Bloomberg, leaning in to a shipping container metaphor, shows the value of goods (in orange) against declared tariffs (in yellow). Each “container” represents one million dollars, through the lens of...
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Met Gala dress silhouettes over the years
This is outside my wheelhouse, but it seems like Met Gala dresses grow more outlandish each year. Reuters went into the photo archive to confirm. Using the Reuters photo archive, the Reuters Graphics...
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Lawsuits against executive orders
For Bloomberg, Zoe Tillman and Christopher Cannon break down the lawsuits against the administration in response to executive orders. Sometimes it seems like orders are going unchecked, but there is...
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Limited surveying of the deep sea, a tiny 0.001%
Researchers from the Ocean Discovery League estimated how little we know about the deep seafloor: We then used two independent methods to estimate the amount of deep seafloor observed globally over the...
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National weather forecasting in jeopardy
For CNN, Andrew Freedman reports: Of the hundreds of vacancies, the 30 open meteorologist-in-charge roles are particularly worrying, current and former NWS meteorologists told CNN....
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Tariff timeline with China, so far
The U.S. and China put a semi-hold on tariffs for the next 90 days. The New York Times provides the timeline so far. Tariffs on Chinese goods are down to 30% from 145% and tariffs on U.S. goods are...
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World map with south on top and Brazil in center
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Brazil’s agency for statistics and maps, released a world map that shows south on top and Brazil in the center. This probably looks upside...
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