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Jimmy Carter’s longevity compared to other U.S. presidents

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, turned 100 years old. For The Washington Post, Hannah Dormido and Kevin Uhrmacher show how that compares the other presidents. Tags: age, Jimmy...

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Maps showing migration out of cities

Mira Rojanasakul and Nadja Popovich, for The New York Times, mapped migration out of cities between 2020 and 2023. The dot density maps show where more people moved out than in as orange dots and the...

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Helene power outages mapped

Chenxiao Guo, a PhD candidate in geography who goes by the name Atlas, made a quick comparison between satellite images to highlight places without power due to Hurricane Helene. Blue shows the path....

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Smuggling fentanyl precursors, illustrated

In their ongoing series on fentanyl in the United States, Reuters illustrates the journey of fentanyl precursors hidden among billions of everyday shipments. The volume of boxes, despite various layers...

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Political search interest in 2024

In a follow-up to the 2020 project, Moritz Stefaner and Google Trends show geographic and temporal search patterns for this election year in Waves of Interest. This site presents Google Trends data on...

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Rise in drug overdose deaths, led by fentanyl

Deaths by drug overdose in the United States increased sharply over the past decade, but a small shift downwards appeared over the past couple years. Just not equally everywhere. For NYT Opinion, Maia...

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Preparing for a hurricane, a visual guide

For The Washington Post, N. Kirkpatrick, Aaron Steckelberg, and Leslie Shapiro provide a visual guide for what to do before, during, and after a hurricane. The guide was originally published in 2023,...

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Hurricane Milton potential threats

Hurricane Milton continues towards Florida, estimated to make landfall on October 9, 2024 in the evening. This means potential for storm surges, high winds, flooding, and tornadoes. Instead of trying...

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Seen from space: Hurricane Milton approaches

NOAA has a viewer for their GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) system, which provides current imagery from space. The images update every five minutes, and you can see different...

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Uber and Lyft use lockout loophole to avoid paying drivers

Based on rideshare data collected by Bloomberg, it appears that Uber and Lyft are using a loophole to avoid paying drivers a minimum wage in New York. They lock out drivers throughout the day to reduce...

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Restaurant preferences via campaign spending

For WP’s Department of Data, Kati Perry and Adrián Blanco examine campaign spending through the lens of restaurant and cuisine preferences between political parties: [W]e wanted to wrap our arms around...

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Who gets shipped in fan fiction

The Pudding examines who gets shipped, which means a pairing of characters in a relationship. Relationship types, demographics, and fandoms. Completely uninitiated to the world of fan fiction, I did...

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Presidential campaign target states, since 1952

We mostly hear about a handful of swing states these days, as presidential campaigns focused more on optimizing resources. Research by Shaw et al. identifies the shifts and the state-by-state results....

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Increasing time spent at home

For NYT’s the Upshot, Ronda Kaysen and Alicia Parlapiano highlight analysis by Patrick Sharkey, which shows time spent at home relative to 2003. Based on data from the American Time Use Survey, the...

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Scoring climate, conflict, and vulnerability around the world

In an effort to measure and highlight risks globally, the German Federal Foreign Office released the Climate-Conflict-Vulnerability Index. It shows the risks of climate change, such as drought, floods,...

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Scale of buildings destroyed in Gaza

Damage assessments from UNOSAT estimate that 66% of structures in Gaza are damaged as of September 6, 2024, of which 78% are moderately to severely damaged or destroyed. This is about 128,000...

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How Americans vote in each state

Some states have almost completely moved to voting by mail or early voting, whereas other states mostly vote in person on election day. For the Washington Post, Nick Mourtoupalas used a grid map to...

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Visual explainer for the thrilling game of Crokinole

From Russell Samora for The Pudding, “Crokinole is like a mashup of shuffleboard and curling, played on a tabletop board.” There is even a playable simulation that you can practice on. I need to get...

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Legality of abortion pills in each state

For the Washington Post, N. Kirkpatrick and Szu Yu Chen describe the legality of abortion pills in each state. There’s a grid map with a dropdown to select each state. I like the short summary sentence...

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Abortion mazes to represent the complexity of abortion access

Speaking of grid maps and abortion access, Jan Diehm and Michelle Pera-McGhee, for The Pudding, estimated a complexity score (with variables from the Guttmacher Institute) for each state and made mazes...

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